{"id":49830,"date":"2022-10-31T22:29:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/taiwan-museum-admits-breaking-artefacts-worth-66m"},"modified":"2022-10-31T22:29:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:29:34","slug":"taiwan-museum-admits-breaking-artefacts-worth-66m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49830","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan museum admits breaking artefacts worth \u00a366m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bowl, teacup and plate \u2013 dating from 15th and 17th centuries \u2013 were broken in three separate incidents<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s national palace museum has admitted to previously undisclosed breakages of three artefacts from the Ming and Qing dynasties, worth a reported \u00a366m ($77m).<\/p>\n<p>The items \u2013 a bowl, a teacup and a plate \u2013 were <a href=\"https:\/\/focustaiwan.tw\/culture\/202210280016\">broken in three separate incidents<\/a> during the past 18 months but the damage came to light only last week under questioning from a Taiwan legislator. The artefacts date back to the 15th and 17th centuries. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/taiwan-museum-admits-breaking-artefacts-worth-66m\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bowl, teacup and plate \u2013 dating from 15th and 17th centuries \u2013 were broken in three separate incidentsTaiwan\u2019s national palace museum has admitted to previously undisclosed breakages of three artefacts from the Ming and Qing dynasties, worth a report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,89,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-museums","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49831,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49830\/revisions\/49831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}