Sunday, May 10, 2015

Singaporean Collectors

This two visitors from Singapore with one searching for “peranakan porcelain genuine” another searching for “antiqueperanakanporcelien” are trying to make a fool out of me.
The Origin of Peranakan in Straits Settlement dated Wednesday 24 July 2013 states that the use of the word Peranakan appeared in the 1960’s when the then Straits Chinese British Association and later Peranakan Association Singapore on 23 February 1966. Peranakan porcelain ware among the other wares which is found to be bandung copies because of the demand of antique porcelain. Until now I do not know which is the best namely Pua nguar, nyonya ware or Peranakan ware?
Many years ago my late father was famous for sending away customers or visitors from Singapore concerning antiques and this was well known in Singapore. The trouble starts with these trouble makers who browse around and accuse him of selling fake antiques and his reply was to throw them out by saying “Don’t come here and get yourself cheated” and just ignored them making themselves to go off. None of them including other collectors refused to hear his explanation.  Arrogant collectors have thought that they are the best collectors and need not hear what others have to say. Now that collectors have turned experts are the best people to find out how to decide with details that the specimen is a fake or genuine.

 The best way is to look for an expert to advise you on genuineness and also where to buy so that purchases will not be wrong.

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