Iron Rust Color Spots

          Recently there has been argument about iron rust colour spots (translated in mandarin as tieh siew pan) found in Blue and White porcelain are genuine antiques. I have a good laugh because the collectors and experts only know that blue and white items are only good when iron rust colour spots are found and  whether the iron rust colour spots are manmade or appeared due to aging and this is not known to collectors and experts. When such collectors and experts are put on stage to give talks, it will be helpful to find out how well they know their homework.

A visitor from Batu Caves, Selangor searching for “Malaysia Chinese antique furniture supplier” which I can state that there is no factory for any antique items. My late father’s carpenter is now helping his wife selling noodles at Old Town Petaling Jaya after his retirement and his special tools for shaping wood was given to me. There were buyers for his tools which I want to keep. This is the same carpenter who restore and extracting the old carving parts from incomplete furniture to make complete furniture. This has been going on at Klang Road. It is very difficult to get restorers today and it will go back to the earlier years where gas and kerosene stoves were not in the market, most of the broken furniture are used as firewood for cooking. 

Wai Siau For

A friend of mine who visited antique shops in Peoples’ Republic of China and put forward the same question that I would ask to one antique shop owner and he seem to be confused. At the same time my friend showed him the photograph of Yuan dynasty Blue and white item and his reply was that if that is genuine, you can buy up the whole street. He also mentioned about “Nei Siau For and Wai Siau For” Most of the experts in the Peoples’ Republic of China always think that “Nei Siau For” is only found in China.

Mr. O Kai Seng , a businessman who runs his business at Penang Road. He sent a friend, Mr. Bah Chong Seang to China to choose the “Nei Siau For” vases. These vases were taken from families and sold to raise funds to fight Korean War. Mr. O Kai Seng then priced the vases at a high price and he rented a store at a place called “Tai Gu Ow”  in Teochew direct translation is ”slaughter cow back” for about eight months. Later he personally came to my house to invite my father to Penang to buy his vases and has set his condition that if my father fail to buy any of his vases, he will pay for my father’s expenses because he has stock and no customer and my father has customer but no stock.

At present I have been looking for photographs of the new batch of “Nei Siau For” found in the Peoples’ Republic of China which was brought up by experts and dealers because I came across the “Nei Siau For” items sold by the Communist China government. Some of the “Nei Siau For and Wai Siau For” items were said to be copied in Bandung.

The meaning of “Nei Siau For and Wai Siau For” can be found in this blog dated February 2, 2012.