Looking for Nyonya Ware

Thank you to this visitor from Greenfield, Massachusetts searching for “arrogant antique collectors”. Some of the names of the arrogant collectors can be found at the back pages of the book titled “Celadon and other related wares”. In Malaysia, my late father and I had bad experiences with arrogant antique collectors and some may have passed away leaving the said to be good items to the next generation. The remaining ones are quiet now.

Visitors searching antique shops will not find it because antique shop owners do not know the items that arrogant antique collectors want so might as well do not keep stock to sell. My late father did not retire from this business but his son has to look for other business and put the antique business aside.  Antique business was put down by arrogant antique collectors by claiming that any new porcelain can be aged with acid and did not tell dealers how the ones that are aged looked like and the ones that are not aged.

The freelance Hong Kong dealer mentioned in this blog earlier who claims to be good at authenticating antiques does not ring a bell to me and if he wants to claim that he is good maybe he has to go on stage to answer questions. Interest in collecting antique Chinese porcelain will carry on from one generation to another. For example when I hold up one piece of genuine Nyonya ware or Tang Dynasty horse or Yuan dynasty blue and white item to confirm it as genuine, I am able to tell my sons and my grandchildren to know that it is genuine. 

One visitor e-mail one image of a square polychrome plate and ask whether I sell such plate, I don’t like to sell something that will create argument on the part of genuineness.

 Another visitor e-mail asking whether there is anyone in the government sector to authenticate antique porcelain and as far as I can say I don’t know in the government sector but I can suggest to look for these people, they are Mr. Lu Yaw in Singapore, the rest in Malaysia are Che Mokhtar Bin Che Ali, Mr. Mohammad, Mr. William Willetts and Mr. Peter Clague. These are the famous experts and arrogant antique collectors are nobody because they do not know how to authenticate and are only big bluff.

 Last visitor from Thailand searching for “peranakan ceramic factory in malaka” which I have not heard of any porcelain factory but maybe it might have started not long ago.

Ng Ting Kau Antique Shop is in Kuala Lumpur and not at any other places with the business registration. There are another three visitors, one from United Kingdom searching for “peranakan antiques” did not mention the items that was searching for. The next is from Singapore searching for “nyonya ware kamcheng and the following is from San Jose, California searching for “nyonya nyonya ware porcelain” and I am happy to say that many nyonya ware porcelain items passed my late father’s and my hand while we were staying at 4^1/2 Mile Klang Road and many owners who bought nyonya ware from us will be asked from whom you get it from. Experts who get the reply that they are from Mr. NgTing Kau will be claimed modern copies or fakes. I have checked with some of his customers who has thrown away the items sold by my late father and what is left that is not thrown away is for you to find out because I am not interested any more.