Masterworks of Antique Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum Taipei

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Masterworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum
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By Chiang Fu-tsung.
Published in Taipei by the National Palace Museum in 1969.
A selection of 50 outstanding examples of Chinese jades of the Shang, Chou, Huan, Han, and Ch’ing periods. Each is completely described in English, and there is an English summary, and preface. The Museum website offers a brief history- “The collection of cultural artifacts held inside the National Palace Museum consists an enormous treasure trove of objects from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Thirteen years after the founding of the Republic of China, the last Qing Emperor Puyi was exiled from the Forbidden City. The cultural artifacts left within the palaces were collectively itemized, and a National Palace Museum was born. Aiming to preserve the imperial collections and palatial treasures from the various Chinese dynasties, the National Palace Museum was officially open on October 10, 1925, allowing members of the public and future generations to enter the Palace to admire this cultural inheritance. 1931 marked the September 18 Crisis, when the Japanese army invaded Northern China. In order to ensure the safety of the Museum’s collections, the Executive Directors of the National Palace Museum gave orders to store important artifacts in crates so as to be ready for evacuation at any time. On January 31, 1934, five groups of artifacts totaling 19,557 crates were relocated southwards, including the 6,066 crates of objects from the Exhibition Office of Ancient Artifacts, the Yiheyuan and the Hanlin Yuan Imperial Academy. During this period, the Museum began to separate items that were to be relocated to Shanghai and ones to remain in Beijing. In 1935 a group of treasured works from the Palace Museum’s collection was sent to London for the “International Exhibition of Chinese Art”. In autumn 1948 fighting between the Nationalist and Communist armies took an adverse turn, and the Central Government made the decision to send the most precious objects in the collections of the Palace Museum and the Preparatory Office to Taiwan. A total of 2,972 crates were shipped; while these accounted for only 22% of the items originally transported south from Beijing and 852 crates of the items from the Preparatory Office, these pieces represented the cream of the collections. In 1965 a new museum was built in the Taipei suburb of Waishuanxi. The new museum site was christened the “Chung-Shan Museum” in honor of the founding father of the nation, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and first opened to the public on the centenary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s birthday.”
Hardcover. 8.5″x11″, 110 pages, 50 color plates and 4 black & white plates of marks, slipcased. Case scuffed.
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