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Fellowship Project
Dr. Huang will visit the Corning Museum of Glass in the United States for 6 months (June – December 2026), to study the Western glass within its collection, to examine ancient Chinese glassware, especially those predating the Qing Dynasty, and to investigate glassware types that are akin to those found in the National Museum of China’s foreign glass collection. In addition, by drawing on the practices from Western museums with regards to collection acquisition and exhibition planning, this endeavour will strengthen the exchanges between the National Museum of China and the Corning Museum of Glass in the US.
Biography
Dr. HUANG Xiaojiao is an Associate Research Fellow at the National Museum of China with a Ph.D. in Art History Theory from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. She is mainly responsible of the collection acquisition, authentication, and research of foreign artifacts and artworks, and oversees collection projects on ancient glassware, Islamic ceramics, overseas Chinese art works, and Japanese lacquerware with maki-e. Currently, she focuses on the study of ancient glassware from China and the West, as well as the research on the strategies of museum collection acquisition. She has published more than 10 articles and has also participated in the writing of works such as the Report Series Collection Acquisition at the National Museum of China – Foreign Ancient Coins, and Through History: 3000 Years of Western Art.
Recent Development and Achievement
In 2019, as the project leader, Dr. Huang initiated the project of ancient glass acquisition at the National Museum of China, while also launching a comparative research project on ancient glassware from China and the West. To date, she has completed 8 reports on the ancient glassware collection, accumulating over 30,000 words, and published 2 articles on the study of ancient Chinese and Western glass, specifically the glass collection of the National Museum of China. Currently, she is working on the publication of the Report Series Collection Acquisition at the National Museum of China – Foreign Ancient Glass, as the author. Additionally, she takes part in a cooperative project between the National Museum and Tsinghua University’s Glass Studio.
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