18.8.2012–9.12.2012

Gallery I, Art Museum

The Ming dynasty saw a golden age of ceramics production at Jingdezhen. Reign marks of imperial wares were introduced in the Yongle era (1403–1424) and became a standard practice for all the following periods. No extant Ming ceramics, however, bear reign marks of the Zhengtong, Jingtai and Tianshun periods (1436–1464) ruled by the two emperors Ying Zong and Dai Zong. Ceramics scholars call this period the ‘Interregnum’. Devoted to the Ming Interregnum of Chinese ceramics, this exhibition is the first of its kind in Hong Kong and around the world.