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Historic Song porcelain plate smashed by researcher to be repaired
By Wang Qingchu |
August 2, 2011, Tuesday
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THE National Palace Museum will soon start repair work on a priceless porcelain plate accidentally smashed to pieces by a hapless researcher conducting scientific testing.
The museum handed a detailed report about the incident to the Ministry of Culture and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage on Monday, 28 days after the rare masterpiece made from Ge kiln porcelain was broken into six pieces, Beijing Evening News reported today.
Ge kiln is one of the imperial kilns dating back to the Song Dynasty, which reigned in China from 960-1279.
The Ministry of Culture and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage are both investigating the incident and will publish results once they are available, the report said.
Answering to questions why it took so long to reveal the mishap, the museum argued that it didn't want to hastily announce the accident until a complete internal investigation had been concluded.
It also denied it had ordered its employees to keep mum over the incident, the report said.
"We stopped the testing right after the accident happened. The museum ordered us to finish the investigation within one month. The process was very complicated," Chen Lihua, deputy curator of the Palace Museum, told the Beijing Evening News.
"We didn't try to conceal the accident as speculated by netizens," Chen added.
Meanwhile, the broken porcelain plate was shown for the first time on China Central Television yesterday.
The pictures triggered a new wave of questions as the broken plate shown on a CCTV news program seemed to be different from the original one published by the museum earlier on its website, Eastday.com reported today.
The museum handed a detailed report about the incident to the Ministry of Culture and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage on Monday, 28 days after the rare masterpiece made from Ge kiln porcelain was broken into six pieces, Beijing Evening News reported today.
Ge kiln is one of the imperial kilns dating back to the Song Dynasty, which reigned in China from 960-1279.
The Ministry of Culture and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage are both investigating the incident and will publish results once they are available, the report said.
Answering to questions why it took so long to reveal the mishap, the museum argued that it didn't want to hastily announce the accident until a complete internal investigation had been concluded.
It also denied it had ordered its employees to keep mum over the incident, the report said.
"We stopped the testing right after the accident happened. The museum ordered us to finish the investigation within one month. The process was very complicated," Chen Lihua, deputy curator of the Palace Museum, told the Beijing Evening News.
"We didn't try to conceal the accident as speculated by netizens," Chen added.
Meanwhile, the broken porcelain plate was shown for the first time on China Central Television yesterday.
The pictures triggered a new wave of questions as the broken plate shown on a CCTV news program seemed to be different from the original one published by the museum earlier on its website, Eastday.com reported today.
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