Taiwan to loan prized jade cabbage to Japan
Taiwan plans to send hundreds of artefacts to Japan in its first ever loan to its former wartime enemy
Taiwan is set to send hundreds of artefacts to Japan next year including a jade cabbage, its most treasured masterpiece, in the island’s first ever loan to its former wartime enemy.
The Taipei-based National Palace Museum said it will lend 231 pieces and sets ranging from paintings and calligraphy to bronze, china, jade and embroidery to the Tokyo National Museum and Kyushu National Museum from June to November next year.
The loan will include the museum’s most-prized items – a jade cabbage and meat-shaped stone dating back to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) – which have never been displayed overseas, it said in a statement.
The two artefacts will be on loan for a period of two weeks only.
It will also be the first ever loan by the National Palace Museum to an Asian country, following previous exhibitions in the United States, France, Germany and Austria.
The Taipei museum boasts more than 600,000 Chinese artefacts spanning 7,000 years from the prehistoric Neolithic period to the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911.