Taipei Times
Date: Jun 19, 2019
By: Lin Yi-chang and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
An upcoming special exhibition at the National Palace Museum Southern Branch is to feature 13 antique pottery
A Northern Song Dynasty ru-ware dish is pictured in an undated photograph.
Photo courtesy of the National Palace Museum Southern Branch
While 300 pottery items are to be on display, the ru ware created for the imperial court would be the most eye-catching, said Weng Yu-wen (翁宇雯), an assistant researcher at the museum’s southern branch and the planner of the exhibition.
Only 21 objects in the museum’s pottery collection of 25,000 items are ru ware, which are usually displayed individually as the centerpiece of an exhibit, she said on Sunday, adding that the museum has not arranged so many for simultaneous public viewing since the “Grand View” exhibit in 2006.
Previously part of the collection of the Qing Dynasty’s Qianlong emperor, the museum’s ru-ware pieces are marked by unusual size and fine crazing, which resembles an insect’s wings, Weng said, adding that the items to be exhibited are “priceless.” [FULL STORY]