Museum Art

Museum Art Series

"When Classic Artifacts Meet Exquisite Stationery"

ARTEX is built upon the core design philosophy of symbolizing diverse artistic styles. We aspire to collaborate with world-renowned museums to ignite further artistic inspiration.

The National Palace Museum houses the world's largest collection of priceless Chinese art treasures, with artifacts spanning nearly the entire five-thousand-year history of China. It is recognized as one of the world's top five museums, alongside the Louvre in France, the British Museum in the UK, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the US, and the Hermitage Museum in Russia.

"Creating Eternal Beauty"

Let Art Permeate Life

Imagine admiring beautiful artwork in a museum that you can't take home.

Now, with ARTEX pens, you can hold the beauty of art in your hands and incorporate it into your daily life!

“打造永恆之美”
讓藝術浸潤生活
想像一下，在博物館裡欣賞無法帶回家的美麗藝術品。現在，通過ARTEX鋼筆，您可以將藝術之美掌握在手中，並融入日常生活中！

【霽青釉描金番蓮紋瓶】
清乾隆西元1736-1795年
直口，長頸，圓腹，圈足，清宮稱這類頸略寬長的瓶制為紙槌瓶。器外壁通體施鈷藍釉，紋飾以金、銀二彩繪成，口沿及肩各飾回紋一道，器頸及腹畫轉枝番蓮花，底邊及圈足各為蓮瓣及卷草紋一周。口沿、足底均描金邊，胎薄潔白，器內、底均施白釉，底心青花書「大清乾隆年製」六字三行篆款。

ARTEX x National Palace Museum: Golden Fan Flower Collection

【 Blue Glazed Bottle with Gilt Lotus Scrolls 】

Qianlong Period, Qing Dynasty (1736-1795)

This mallet vase (a shape referred to in the Qing Imperial Household as a paper mallet vase due to its slightly wider and elongated neck) has a straight mouth, a long neck, a globular body, and a footrim. The exterior is covered in a cobalt blue glaze. The decoration, rendered in gold and silver enamels, features a key-fret band around the mouth rim and shoulder. The neck and body are adorned with scrolling lotus blossoms. A lotus petal band and a scrolling草 motif encircle the bottom edge and footrim, respectively. The mouth rim and foot are edged in gold. The body is thin and pure white, and the interior and base are covered in a white glaze. The base bears a six-character, three-line Qianlong reign mark in underglaze blue seal script.

"霽青描金游魚轉心瓶"
清乾隆西元1736-1795年
套瓶，斂口捲邊，長頸，豐肩，斂腹，矮圈足，器肩飾有四圓環形繫耳。瓶腹分內外兩層，內層施淺青湖綠色釉表現出湖水一樣的背景，其間以粉彩畫水草、落花及金魚。器外底施湖綠釉，書有「大清乾隆年製」青花篆體款識。外瓶器腹部上作四鏤空開光，觀者可自頸部握住轉動，透過外瓶開光看見內瓶所繪之水草魚紋悠游嬉戲於眼前，如同走馬燈一般，故名「轉心瓶」。

ARTEX x National Palace Museum: Peace and Prosperity Collection

[Painting Flowers in a Vase]

Qing Dynasty, Giuseppe Castiglione

Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian Jesuit missionary painter, was Italian. At the age of 19, he joined the Catholic Society of Jesus as a novice, studying painting and architecture. In the 54th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, at the age of 27, he came to China as a missionary and was summoned to serve in the imperial court. He excelled at painting figures and birds and flowers, especially horses. He painted peonies using shades of color to create a sense of depth, with the fronts and backs of the leaves clearly delineated and the veins realistically rendered, giving them a strong three-dimensional effect. The vase contains rare twin-flowered and intergrown peonies, symbolizing auspiciousness, good fortune, peace, and prosperity.

ARTEX x The Forbidden City Glazed Pen and Ink Series

[ Sky Blue Glazed Gold-Painted Revolving Fish Vase ]

Qianlong Period, Qing Dynasty, 1736-1795 AD

This revolving vase features a constricted mouth with a rolled rim, a long neck, broad shoulders, a tapered belly, and a short foot ring. Four ring handles adorn the shoulders. The vase comprises an inner and outer layer. The inner layer is glazed in a light celadon-green hue, depicting a lake-like background, within which water plants, falling blossoms, and goldfish are painted in famille rose enamels. The outer bottom of the vessel is covered in a celadon-green glaze and bears a "Da Qing Qianlong Nian Zhi" (Made in the Great Qing Qianlong Period) mark in blue and white seal script. The outer vase has four openwork panels on its belly. The viewer can hold and rotate the vase by the neck, observing the water plants and fish motifs painted on the inner vase through the outer vase's openwork, creating an illusion of fish swimming playfully before their eyes, much like a "magic lantern." Hence, it is named "revolving vase."

錢紋盒，子母口，平頂蓋，淺壁平底。全器施白釉，釉色泛黃，底露胎無釉。蓋面及器外壁刻印錢幣紋，加上毬紋亦為古代錢紋的象徵，結合小圓盒彷彿盛裝滿滿的財富聚寶之寓意。以此毬紋(錢紋) 為設計主題，化作筆身的圖騰以及包裝盒上的圖騰。

ARTEX x National Palace Museum: Wealth and Prosperity Collection

[Dehua Ware White Porcelain Globular Box]

Southern Song to Yuan Dynasties, 1127-1368 AD

Cash-patterned box with a fitted lid, flat top, shallow sides, and a flat base.
The entire piece is covered in white glaze, which has yellowed with age, revealing the unglazed body on the base.
The lid and outer wall of the box are carved with cash coin patterns, and the ball patterns also symbolize ancient coins. Together with the small round box, it evokes the imagery of a treasure trove overflowing with wealth. These ball (cash) patterns serve as the main design theme, transformed into motifs on the pen barrel and the packaging box.

ARTEX x National Palace Museum: Heart Sutra Calligraphy Series

[Wen Zhengming's Heart Sutra Scrolls]

Jiajing 21st Year of the Ming Shizong Emperor (1542 AD)

Qiu Ying, a native of Taicang, Jiangsu, was skilled at imitating ancient works, almost to the point of being indistinguishable from the originals, and was one of the Four Masters of the Ming Dynasty. Wen Zhengming was a renowned calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty, whose regular script and running script, in particular, were highly esteemed by later generations and regarded as among the finest examples of Ming dynasty calligraphy. This painting depicts the story of Zhou Yushun of Kunshan requesting Wen Zhengming to transcribe the Heart Sutra, and then asking Qiu Ying to illustrate it, portraying Zhao Mengfu's transcription of the Heart Sutra in exchange for tea.