The Hong Kong Palace Museum will showcase 100 pieces of textiles highlighting Chinese silk culture, the first major exhibition of its kind in the city in recent years.
The exhibition, “A History of China in Silk: The Chris Hall Collection at the Hong Kong Palace Museum”, is part of a nearly 3,000-piece collection from Hong Kong-based collector Chris Hall and will run from National Day on Wednesday to April 6 next year.
It is one of the world’s most comprehensive and important collections of historical Chinese textiles, the museum said on Monday.
“What is special about the exhibition is that it covers such a wide period,” the 73-year-old Hall said.
“While most exhibitions about Chinese textiles focused on the Qing or Ming dynasty, this exhibition will include one piece that is more than 2,000 years old.”
Hall was referring to a piece with dragons and phoenixes, and geometric decorations from the Warring States period from 475 to 221BC.
