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Rarest royal Chinese porcelain bowl—at least 900 years old—discovered in Dresden state collection

Ru bowl, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) © Dresden State Museums A rare Ru bowl more than 900 years old has been discovered in the porcelain collection of the Dresden State Art Collections in the course of a research project that began in 2014. Previously thought to have originated in Korea, the bowl with a bluish-green glaze and crazing resembling cracked ice was identified by Regina Krahl, one of the international experts engaged in Dresden’s research project. Ru ceramics were only produced for a period of about 20 years towards the end of China’s Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), exclusively for the imperial court, and the Dresden bowl is only the 88th piece known to have survived. “As the Song dynasty was driven into the south of China by invaders shortly afterwards, Ru ceramics became a mythologised memento of an idealised lost past immediately after their creation,” Julia Weber, the director of Dresden’s Porcelain Collection, said in a

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