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Chaumet’s Imperial Splendours puts history on show at Beijing’s Forbidden City
Chaumet’s Imperial Splendours exhibition in Beijing features over 300 objects, including jewellery, paintings, drawings and objets d’art
Chaumet's “Imperial Splendors” exhibition at the Forbidden City in Beijing
Titled “Imperial Splendours”, Chaumet’s exhibition at Beijing’s Palace Museum showcases a cultural dialogue between France and China that can be traced back to the late 18th century.
The exhibition has brought many of France’s national treasures to the Forbidden City. The centrepiece, for example, is the Consular Sword – also known as Napoleon I Coronation Sword – which left France for the first time to be exhibited at the show.
The Consular Sword – also known as Napoleon I Coronation Sword – on display at Chaumet’s exhibition in the Forbidden City
Over 300 pieces, including jewellery, paintings, drawings and objets d’art, are featured in the exhibition. Some of the pieces are on loan by institutional museums such as Musee du Louvre, Chateau de Fontainebleau and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A Chaumet Diadem with fuchsia motifs, known as “Bourbon-Parme”
The Palace Museum’s “Hair pin with two dragon motifs” dates to the Qing Dynasty and features gilded and coloured silver, glass pearls, coral and pearls
Chaumet's Ears of wheat bending in the wind diadem
Chaumet's Hummingbird Aigrett dates to 1880
Chaumet also worked with a Central Saint Martins design student, Scott Armstrong, to create a contemporary tiara for the heritage museum. The piece, titled “Vertiges” diadem, features diamonds, green tourmalines and garnets on an asymmetrical, modern tiara.
Chaumet's “Vertiges” diadem
The exhibition runs until July 2.
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