Untrustworthy Comments

There is a Chinese national who claim that “Kit Chow” Temmuko which is a black glazed items should have black base which is in lay man’s term the whole item should be black and any white would be wrong. I have good color photos of the items that he mentioned and I am not sure he will carry out the action according to what he had said by throwing away the museums’ pieces for giving wrong information because the black part on the unglazed foot is dirt and not cleaned. There are visitors searching for antique shops, I can only state that you have to wait until one day the shops will be opened for them to buy antiques and this is a reply to visitor 1)Denpasar Bali searching for “malaysia antique plate shop”. 2)Kuala Lumpur – “Penang antique shop”. One visitor from Petaling Jaya searching for “antique dealers Petaling Jaya” which is difficult for me to say what dealers are selling because the search is in the air and nothing concrete. Unless this visitor has a search for example like blue and white double gourd or a piece of antique hall mark silver.

There are visitors from kuala lumpur searching for 1)”nyonya ware and kitchen ching”. 2)”nyonya porcelain mark made in china”. Nyonya ware and kitchen ching are items not to my interest and even I run an antique shop, I will just throw them away. Next is a visitor from K.L. searching for “antique buyers in Malaysia”, if there are antique buyers then there will be many antique shops in Malaysia. Visitors looking for peranakan porcelain ware should go to Jingdezhen to look for the factories as this word “peranakan” was newly heard of and this make nyonya ware older which I know because my grandmother and my mother are daughters of Baba and Nyonya family. One visitor from Shah Alam searching for “peranakan bowl magazine” is something I have not heard of and who the publisher is?

One visitor from Kuala Lumpur W.P. searching for “antique collector malaysia” which is hard to find because antique collectors do not know what are antiques and what are not? I am yet to meet up with an antique collector or collectors in Chinese porcelain from which ever country.

Unwanted and Cheap Nyonya Ware

There are number of visitors 1) From Singapore searching for “nyonya ware”. 2) Kuala Lumpur searching for “Peranakan tea set K.L.” 3) Singapore, “where to buy peranakan porcelain in Singapore”. 4) Kajang “peranakan antiques for sale”. 5) Melaka “fake nyonya ware”. 6) Singapore “nyonya antique shop penang”. 7) London “nyonya porcelain auction prices”.  8) Puchong, Selangor-“antique nyonya ware”. 9)Puchong, Selangor- “nyonya antique bowl for sale” 10) Kuala Lumpur – peranakan antique nyonya ware”. 11) London “nyonya porcelain prices”. Please refer to Star Special titled “Homes”, in this article it tells the shop, address that sells nyonya ware and the prices for the items which order can be made and also repeat order. This shop is still in business. I have to admit that I do not know peranakan ware.

Other visitors from Warboys, Cambridgeshire searching for “nyonya ware uk”, I do not have contacts with UK and I do not know where the Settlement for nyonya families are found in UK. Two visitors from 1) Kuala Lumpur- “antique malaysia”. 2) Malaysia searching for “antique Malaysia” which I do not know what is wanted by these two visitors and I do not want to state anything. 3) A visitor from New York searching for “Malaysia antique store“. 4) Petaling Jaya – “antique shops K.L.” which I had stated earlier that there was no record of any shop or store and explanation was in this earlier blog. 4)Two visitors one from Shah Alam Selangor searching for “antique shop furniture and another second from Petaling Jaya searching for “Chinese antique furniture Malaysia”. 5) Melaka- “nyonya ware prices “. Old and unwanted things are treated as rubbish and if there are takers will make the sellers happy. For nonya set nothing cost more than 300dollars, for a soup spoon is on 10cents, tea cups 15cents, teapots 3dollars and the prices of the items has passed my hands and at that time there are also prices for dealers. The nyonya kancheng which was called pua nguar was 35 dollars. Most of the unwanted things are being sought after by young family members who have gone to overseas for education.

Antique business has been bad for a long time because dealer or dealers do not know what is suitable for sale to customers. For example, when I talk about nyonya ware kamcheng. I was objected by a highly reputable man that in the 60’s there was no nonya ware and was called pua nguar and there was no way for me to win over him because collectors trusted him more than me. I have not heard of peranakan ware and pua nguar. The problem is when I talk about nyonya ware pua nguar came up and to another person when I talk about nyonya ware, peranakan ware or straits Chinese porcelain ware came up. The two problems are nyonya ware fakes are made in Bandung and later Jingde Zhen and the confusing names given to these wares and if you ask any collector to tell how to know theirs are genuine they are sure to have problems not only to nyonya ware but most of the porcelain ware and this has also 1) make buying and selling difficult. 2) Young generations will share the same problem with the earlier generation. Collectors have to search all over to see who wants to sell in order to get what is wanted and no longer from shops. Collectors has been making enemies toward themselves because if they do not know how to tell what they have with them are genuine and not at the faults of others. It is of no use asking where to buy this because good items will not wait for you to come and buy. Earlier the shop which I had mention that was featured in the Star special that sells a variety of nyonya ware.