A distinctly baba-nyonya ornament, incorporating recognisable Chinese symbols of chrysanthemum flowers, peaches and phoenixes.
Antiques Artifacts Attracts Prosperity
Chinese people have long believed that they could attract good fortune to themselves by surrounding themselves with “lucky” objects, images and words. A jar or painting could contain symbols or motifs representing one of the five types of good fortune: luck, prosperity, longevity, double happiness, and wealth.
Dutch Antiques Time Connection
THE sound of prayers and hymns came from Christ Church in Malacca’s Dutch Square during the launch of the Holland Days In Melaka.
Martin's Rembrant painting
The week-long event was organised by the Netherlands Embassy to commemorate 50 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries and the 50th Merdeka celebrations.
Christ Church, constructed in 1753, is perhaps the only place in the Dutch Square that still serves its original purpose. Continue reading →
Another Celadon Porcelain Plate
Celadon porcelain, usually a pale green-blue in color, developed, flourished. With a signature dragon inset a 11th Century Sung Dynasty China Celadon Pottery Green Plate Find out more here
Blue white porcelain Yuan Dynasty
Blue white porcelain production of Yuan Dynasty for the imperial market
- Yuan Dynasty Blue Hexagonal Double Gourd Vase
Impecable design heavily drawn fine piece produce for the imperial kingdom. Perfection of the Yuan Dynasty Art Read more here
Blue and White antique china plates
antique china plates
All emphasis had been place in Ming Dynasty. However they missed the remarkable antique china plates of Yuan Dynasty. Yuan Dynasty have known to have most prominent of blue and white porcelain ever to be made for imperial order. Continue reading →
Confusion between Early Vietnamese Ceramics
Confusion between early Vietnamese ceramics and early chinese ceramics
Yuan Dynasty Art Collectible Ceramics
I wonder why not much Yuan Dynasty Art Ceramics were not emphasized in the antique china collection world. Perhaps during Yuan Dynasty, China were first rule by the Mongols – the foreigner. The Mongols took over a rich China and less than one hundred years later left an impoverished nation. The Chinese dislike the cannibalism in the yuan dynasty led to destroying of many art pieces of Yuan Dynasty in China.
