Taipei - China's Shanghai Museum will offer two enamel porcelains from the era of Emperor Yongzheng (1678-1735) of the Qing Dynasty to Taiwan, the museum curator said in Taipei Thursday.

"We plan to send two enamel ceramics with colored paintings from Yongzheng era for an exhibition in Taipei in October," said Chen Xiejun, curator of the Shanghai museum.

Taipei's National Palace Museum asked its mainland counterpart, the Palace Museum in Beijing, to loan it 29 pieces of scroll paintings and official documents of the Yongzheng period for exhibition in October.

During a landmark visit to Beijing and Shanghai in February, Taipei museum director Chou Kung-hsi, the first director to visit the mainland museums since the end of a civil war in 1949, reached an agreement on the loans.

The nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which lost the civil war, took about 650,000 pieces from the Palace Museum with it to Taipei, and mainland China still claims full ownership of the complete collection.

Chen said he hoped the cooperation would help promote exchanges between the Taipei and Shanghai museums in the future. (dpa)