Wednesday, March 28, 2012

There are a number of visitors who was searching for clarification in this blog.

On 11/2/2012- a visitor from Zurich searching how to find out if a piece of Chinese porcelain is valuable. The valuable porcelain lies with the items with beautiful drawings and other factors that money can hardly buy. If you want something old you can go to the roadside to take a stone which is one of the world's oldest items because stones are formed by earth's movements.

On 15/2/2012- a visitor from Ipoh,Perak searching for Xiu Bei Hong paintings. Xiu Bei Hong painting which is with one horse is easily duplicated even with wood block print.

On 22/3/2012- a visitor from Singapore searching how to define original Nyonya ware. Ask Nyonya ware collectors for more information because there is a difference between the old and new Pua Nguar mention in my blog. e.g. A collector invited me to see alleged Yuan dynasty items and there was a vast difference between mine and the alleged items. The difference was made known to him because there are not many Yuan dynasty items shown by collectors to make comparison. This method goes for Nyonya and Pua Nguar ware.

On 29/2/2012- a visitor from Brooklyn New York searching for celadons, Sung dynasty. Celadons are items resemblance to jade and brown celadons were due to firing temperature. Later period celadons have grey green and pale green.

On 29/2/2012- a visitor from Calgary Alberta searching for Sung dynasty bowls. Sung dynasty has conical bowls, bubble bowls and others.

On 1/3/2012- a visitor from Singapore searching for antique shop Penang. I haven't visited Penang for a long time. In my younger days, my late father (my present antique shop is named after him) took me to Swatow street and Hong Kong Lane to source for antiques and many agents called "Cheng Kao" will take us to see the items in old houses and these Cheng Kao gets commission from both sides when deals are successful.

On 4/3/2012- a visitor from P.J. searching how for authentication Nyonya ware. Please refer answer to visitor 22/3/2012.

On 4/3/2012- a visitor searching for Ng Ting Kau Amcorp Mall Business Hour. I visit Amcorp Mall to do treasure hunt and visit friends who operate stalls at Flea Market when I am free. A few years ago, I learnt a lesson that Malaysia does not have good collectors only based on rumour buy, rumour sell and this compelled me to take some of the items out of Malaysia after my shop at Amcorp mall shifted out.

On 6/3/2012- A visitor from Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest searching for porcelain mandarin che christie's. I haven't heard of what is porcelain mandarin che christie's but guess that Chinese porcelain for European market.

On 9/3/2012- A visitor from Bicester Oxfordshire searching for peter clague Singapore, I don't know peter clague Singapore but Peter Clague Malaysia is a famous antique dealer cum auctioneer. He was interviewed by Malaysian business magazine in the 70's. He was a material witness and not called by the parties concern to testify against a Chinese antique dealer who was accused of selling fake antiques. His absence in court ( Civil Action 5934 of 1978 in the Magistrate Court , Kuala Lumpur.) was a great loss and to the down fall for antique dealers and antique collectors. The important facts and information in antique authentication brought up by him during the trial at the court case will be made known to dealers and collectors and would have saved confused dealers and confused collectors. Interested parties can help to find out why this happened and also to retrieve the important facts and information.

A friend of mine brought his friend to see a few items in my antique collection and this person was a bit of self-importance and pointed to me that imitation can be made exactly the same as originals. I then said that in your collection, all can be made today and have no longer of high value. I also mentioned to him that in my blog I never encourage anyone to be antique collector. He is Chinese educated and the subject to scientific tests by drilling samples from given pieces and then process the samples before putting the samples into machines for tests. I then asked him whether he knows of the place in Malaysia which such test was carried out, he was blank. I then told him that I know the place and the accuracy and also the people who handle these machines. My advice to him was " Do not be an antique collector but be a handicraft collector" and this was found in this blog. In Malaysia there are some called antiques which can be easily bought at other countries.