From June 3, the Hong Kong Palace Museum presents a new special exhibition in Gallery 1, featuring over 130 objects, including 18 national first-grade cultural relics.
The exhibition places the Forbidden City in a global context, tracing cross-cultural exchanges across the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Highlights include items once used or seen by emperors, remarkably preserved despite being centuries old.
Notable exhibits are an 18th-century musical clock, blue and white porcelain (with pigments from West Asia), and a lamp inscribed with Quranic verses. The show also explores the journeys of Marco Polo and Zheng He, and features objects made from diverse materials like kingfisher feathers and jade from Southeast and South Asia.
It further touches on European efforts to replicate hard-paste porcelain, achieved only in the 18th century.
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