中正殿香云亭内部陈设考

本文通过新整理的中正殿火场残档资料,证实了清宫中正殿一区重要的佛堂香云亭的建筑年代当在乾隆十三年之前,其内部陈设反映了具有藏传佛教色彩的《金刚界曼陀罗》和《法界语自在曼陀罗》合一的主题。这里是清帝上香的主要地点之一,其中所供的宗喀巴像与永安寺的宗喀巴纪念活动有密切的关系。     

Whatever Happened to Otaheitan Jem?

A diaspora of Polynesian travellers on foreign ships began with the foreign discoverers. Jem, a young Tahitian boy, lived in Sydney for some years before shifting to New Zealand. There he married and became a Māori chief. He helped Revd Samuel Marsden in 1814 and later joined a private ship on a disastrous expedition to get sandalwood from the New Hebrides in 1829–30. About 350 Rotumans, 120 Tongans, 500 Hawaiians and various others, including some Māori, died, mostly from fevers caught at Erromanga. Jem survived and was reported in Tonga in 1832, but whatever happened thereafter?     

浅谈清紫檀雕莲叶龙纹宝座的修复

为了更好地把精美古家具呈现于大众,运用传统修复工艺对一件罕见清紫檀雕莲叶龙纹宝座进行修复.经过制订方案、清洗、拼对、粘合、补配、雕刻、打磨、组装、做旧、保养等步骤,使此文物得到了较好的修复效果.古家具修理是一项技术性与艺术性相结合的复杂工艺,需要许多知识的积累,也要有好的手艺.只有从文物实际情况出发,遵循文物修复的原则,才能“修旧如旧”,还文物原貌.