Our guide was motioning for us to hurry, as our small group stood appreciating the cool blasts of air in the main lobby of the Taipei National Palace Museum (NPM) on an unusually hot late autumn morning. As we walked towards the Curio Gallery, where some of the NPM lacquerware collection was on display, our guide explained that most of the carved pieces were from the Ming (1368-1644 A.D.) and Qing (1644-1911 A.D.) dynasties. These were, however, just a sampling of the four hundred lacquerware pieces being safeguarded in the underground vaults of the museum.
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This Article was published in the Magazine “Centered on Taipei” Issue of December 2019 – January 2020 (Vol.20 | 04)
Pages 15 and 16, Text : Sue Babcock, Images : Web.
