MR CHIN KEY RING

Key ring, A di Alessi, MR CHIN, Stefano Giovannoni. Key-ring in thermoplastic resin,Hand-decorated. The National Palace Museum of Taiwan can be considered the Louvre of the Orient for the richness and scope of its collections of antiquities, painting, calligraphy, objets d’art, books and documents. Its holdings originate from the imperial collections of the Ch’ing dynasty, and the earlier Sung, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and constitute the central core of Chinese culture and art. Its history is a tumultuous one. At the time of the founding of the Chinese Republic, the collections were stored in the inner court of the northern sector of the Prohibited City, from where they were moved by the republican government to the outer court in 1917. The early years of the Republic were rife with conflicts between various warlords. In 1924, Feng Yuhsiang occupied Beijing, compelling the last emperor, P’u-i, to leave the Prohibited City and constituted the Committee for the Disposition of the Ch’ing Imperial Possessions, thereby stanching further losses of works from the collection. The Palace Museum was officially inaugurated on October 10, 1925 in Beijing and its collections were opened to the public.