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Taiwan: Underglaze blew ewer, Qing Dynasty, Yuan-Cheng Period (1723-1735), National Palace Museum, Taipei

Taiwan: Underglaze blew ewer, Qing Dynasty, Yuan-Cheng Period (1723-1735), National Palace Museum, Taipei

The National Palace Museum (Chinese: 國立故宮博物院; pinyin: Guólì Gùgōng Bówùyuàn) is an antique museum in Shilin, Taipei, Taiwan.

It is one of the national museums of the Republic of China, and has a permanent collection of more than 696,000 pieces of ancient Chinese artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest in the world.

The collection encompasses over 8,000 years of Chinese history from the Neolithic age to the late Qing Dynasty. Most of the collection are high quality pieces collected by China's ancient emperors.






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David Henley

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Pictures From Asia

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