USELESS PERANAKAN WARE COLLECTORS

One visitor from New Zealand searching for “peranakan porcelain for sale” and another from Singapore searching for “kl peranakan porcelain” after visiting titled “unwanted and cheap nyonya ware. We live in different countries and even if we live in the same country we may be able find the items in this place but not at another place. Peranakan porcelain has been mentioned too many times in the different title and different time in this blogspot but visitors choose to ask this about this search and it is like playing the same old record. Peranakan wares can be found in many places where there are importers. Many were made in Bandung and Jing dezhen. Since there are no importers in New Zealand you won’t be able to find peranakan wares in New Zealand. You can order from Jing dezhen, People’s Republic of China and for kl peranakan porcelain there are difficulties to find importers due to currency exchange and even importers find it is difficult to find buyers because of price hike.  

 There are many collectors who do not know whether the items with them are antiques and yet want to tell others that theirs are antiques. These are the best antique collectors. So far I have met up with bogus collectors but not genuine collectors and some of them are just blind supporters who are useless and worthless in antique field. A case I encountered is an old man who was claimed a scholar by others claimed there is no nyonya ware in the 60’s but Pua Nguar is called considered himself as very good at antiques field. When he walked into my shop at Amcorp Mall and claim my Yuan plate a fake, I demand to know how he tell that the Yuan plate a fake and he warn me not to pressurized people and because of that I learn from this old man who thinks that he is a respectable and senior who tells the truth but taught me not to pressurized collectors but to let the collectors to pressurized collectors themselves to tell the genuineness to family members and friends so that treasure will not turn rubbish.

A few days ago I met a retired Chinese Newspaper reporter whom we had known each other for a long time at the market and on the spot we shared knowledge about antiques. The ladies around began to understand Chinese antiques. The fun in knowing can be carried out everywhere.

The failure to become good collectors was set up by experts and collectors themselves. When Mr. Ng Ting Kau sells his antiques, he did not just sell the piece by just telling that a Ming dynasty piece which ignorant collectors have to accept the item as Ming dynasty. He will give the details on the result that it is a Ming dynasty piece and was accused for selling fakes or copies. Bad dealers, bad collectors and bad experts are made by arrogant and ignorant people themselves. This set up was internationally known because everybody wants to have a say in this field but now bad days are after them and they should know what to do to improve their situation.