Artist Mei-shu Li painted this work in the latter part of his life. ......

Shih An Farm is the first egg-producing farm in Taiwan that received the certification “CAS Fresh Eggs.” The farm is fully automated and adopts modern technology in management and production, including air-conditioned chicken house, automatic environmental control, and automatic grading and packing.

The remarkable part of the Glazed Lady is that there remains a lot of paint, bright as new, on the figurine. This includes the red rouge on the cheeks, the green color of the cuffs, the brown color of the blouse, the orange color of the pleated skirt, etc. Her facial expression, as if she is talking face-to-face, is even more affecting. .....

The painting show five figures: the Three Stars: Fu, Lu, Shou (luck, prosperity, and longevity) and two attendant children. The middle one, who holds a ruyi (traditional ornament signifying good fortune) in one hand and an ingot in the other, is the heavenly officer, Fu (luck). .....

During the T’ang dynasty, most ceramics pillows either had a tri-color “san-ts’ai” glaze, or were glazed brown, black, or a Ch’ang-sha bronze color. At the time, too, there were only two basic types, one used to sleep on, and one on which for taking a pulse. By the Sung dynasty, there was a greater variety of designs, including one made especially to be buried with the deceased. The variation extended to size and style, but also to the kind of decoration, which usually implied some auspicious meaning. ...

This object was obtained during the Institute of History and Philology's Fourth Xiaotun excavation in 1931.........

Born in Chiayi, Chang Yi-Hsiung was determined to become a painter when, at the age of ten, he encountered Chen Cheng-Bo sketching beside a fountain in central Chiayi. Later, he attended Kawabata Painting School in Japan and taught at National Taiwan Normal University and National University of Arts, contributing to the fine arts education in the 1950s.

Four pieces of woven cloth each measuring approximately 24 centimeters in width and approximately 73 centimeters in length were sewn together. Vertical seams reach a width of approximately five centimeters. The entire piece measures 92 to 98 centimeters horizontally and 71 to 76 centimeters vertically. .....

Wang Hsi-chih, style name I-sao, was a native of Lin-i in Lang-ya (Shantung province) and a member of the nobility. At the end of the Western Chin (265-316), he accompanied his father in moving south. During his career, he held various official positions. ....

After bad weather dispersed a group of Dutch ships searching for a new route to the East Indies, one of the vessels, De Liefde, drifted into Wengo Suido in Japan in June 1600. On board was the expeditions chief navigator, an Englishman named William Adams. Adams soon became an advisor to Shogun Tokugawa, .....