Cultural Relics Prohibited from Being Exhibited Overseas

Zhu Ke Copper Ding

Time: Warring States Period (475 -221BC)
Specification: 113 centimeters high; 87 centimeters in caliber
Excavation: Changfeng County, Anhui Province, in 1933
Collection place: Anhui Provincial Museum

Cultural Relics Prohibited from Being Exhibited Overseas

Dragon-Shaped Rectangular Mirrors

Time: Western Han Dynasty (260 BC-24 AD).
Specification: 115.1 centimeters long; 57.5 centimeters wide; 56.5 kilograms in weight.
Excavation: Zibo, Shandong Province, in 1980
Collection place: Zibo Museum in Shandong Province.

Cloisonne Enamel Wares in the Forbidden City (8)

8. Wire inlayed cloisonné enamel phoenix Dou
Specification: 10.1 centimeters in height, 7.1 centimeters in diameter.
A Dou is a bronze food vessel of the Zhou Dynasty (1,100-256 BC). This one, made in the middle Qing Dynasty, is an imitation of the ancient work. With a ring pattern, the enameled Dou has a pair of ear-like handles, which represent two phoenix heads. Taken off, its lid could be used as a plate.

Cloisonne Enamel Wares in the Forbidden City(7)

7. Wire inlayed cloisonne enamel Occidental lidded pot
Specification: 9.5 centimeters in height, 9.3 centimeters in diameter.
With delicate curves, this pot is decorated with sketches of a Western house, people, animals, and a mother with her son. Made in the middle Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the small lidded pot is both ornamental and practical.

Cloisonne Enamel Wares in the Forbidden City (6)

6. Wire inlayed cloisonne enamel Jue

Specification: 14.5 centimeters in height, and 17.9 centimeters in diameter
Jue, the earliest wine vessel with three legs and one loop handle and the earliest bronze ritual vessels, is a guide for the modern pot with tray. The handle is dragon shape, three legs up in the inserted central tray. It is blue, decorated with the painting landscapes, flowers and butterfly.Its unique style is marked by the ancient Chinese people's ingenuity.

Cloisonne Enamel Wares in the Forbidden City (5)

5. Wire inlayed cloisonne enamel butter tea-pot
Specification: 66 centimeters in height
This butter tea-pot of the royal family, weighing more than 20 kilograms, is just for decorative purposes.

Cloisonne Enamel Wares in the Forbidden City(3)

3. Wire inlayed cloisonné enamel Domu pot

Domu tea-pot is the container of butter tea, known as the Tibetan Dong Mo or Mu. Tibetan butter tea, a necessity of life for Tibetans, is boiled with butter, salt and milk. When water and butter is blended completely, the butter tea can be drunk, with a special flavor. This tea-pot is full of the royal style, and has both decorative and practical value.

Cloisonne Enamel Wares in the Forbidden City（2）

2. Wire inlayed cloisonne enamel flowerpot

Specification: 16.2 centimeters in height, and 16.9 centimeters in diameter
The surface of the flowerpot is light blue, decorated with flowers, moirés, peony, chrysanthemum, butterfly and stone. It has both decorative and practical value.

Cloisonne Enamel Wares in the Forbidden City (1)

1.Enamel chrysanthemum pot

Specification: 9.1 centimeters in height
Its shape is a rectangle with curved handles. The surface is painted with chrysanthemum.This pot is unique in the theme of chrysanthemum. Its modeling design, painting technique and sintering process were state-of-the-art during that time.