eBay purchases 10 April 2010

Been on another eBay buying frenzy (one of those phase with 3 pages of items being ‘watched’ – it’ll pass soon ). These are my most recent purchases from the same seller (good for shaving off postage, which can be a bummer if only buying 1 or 2).

1st row left: A metal antique tea [...]

乾隆年製陶器 Qinglong porcelain (tea cups)

Saturday 31 October – Another visits to Sham Sui Po. Another ‘Antique’ porcelain purchased!
We bought a pair of hand-painted tea? sake? cups with gold gildng inside (matt, not glossy & gaudy). Beautiful detailed painting of 8 Chinese mythical characters (same for both). Very good condition, with barely visible hairline cracks near the bottom rim, which [...]

中國民間藝術 Chinese Folk Art (book) 3

Curator of the University Museum & Art Gallery, Yeung Chun-tong 楊春堂（but 木 instead of 土), discusses relationship between Chinese Folk Art prints & porcelain decoration.
…Diaper and net pattens are commonly stamped on green-glazed ceramics of the Western Jin Dynasty. Often found in between these patterns is a bead pattern (Tianjin Teachers print below). This bead [...]

景德镇 Jĭngdézhèn?

Back in October 2006, we took a somewhat adventurous?, train ride from Hong Kong to Shanghai. It was our first long-distance train ride in China (so, longer than Hung Hom to Dongguan or Guangzhou East trains). We left HK at 3pm, and arrived Shanghai at 4pm (that’s 25hours). We had the first class delux sleeper [...]

中國民間藝術 Chinese Folk Art (book) 1

This is one of the books I got out of a local library. It’s a very good book – all information is bilingual & there are lot’s of nice pictures of Chinese Folk Art from different eras & history behind it.
I didn’t realise at the time of borrowing, but this is actually more of a [...]

深水埗 Sham Sui Po

Sham Sui Po (affectionately called SSP by us) apparently is a Hong Kong Tourist Board’s answer to Japan’s Akihabara… Now, there are similarities (electrical components shops, computers etc), but ummm… I’d say you’d have to go to Akihabara to experience it yourself – it’s more like combination of Mongkok & SSP, with a bit of [...]

伊万里焼２ Imari Porcelain history 2

Continuing interaction with Chinese porcelain ware & on 18/19th century ‘imitation’ English/European ‘Imari’ ware
Although Japan ‘closed’ itself to Western interaction during the Edo period of Tokugawa Shoguns (1603-1868), apparently, trade of ceramics was significant (according to Jan-Erik Nilsson of gotheborg.com). That makes sense as there seem to be a lot of ceramics in European museums as [...]

景徳鎮陶瓷 Chinese porcelain from Ywe Hua

We went to YweHua Chinese department store in Jordan looking for Birthday present for Margaret (we did find some nice things in the end – parcel on its way). The department store is huge, with lots of interesting things, so we had a good hour or so looking through things (I’ll be sure to go [...]

伊万里焼 Imari porcelain history (Japanese? Chinese? English?)

Imari, is a place in South Kyushu Island of Japan, it is actually the name of a port, in Saga prefecture, and in Japan, it is more commonly called Arita-yaki (Arita ware) after the town Arita where many of these porcelains were made. Overseas, it is more commonly known as Imari.
As south of Japan was [...]

Imari, Kutani & Carlton ware bought off eBay

Got into an eBay frenzy just before leaving Perth – Margaret (Mike’s mum) has a bit to blame showing me all her treasures at her house! Also Mike for installing eBay app on my new iPhone!!! Just so you know I’m not always eating, or just thinking about food! I won 4 items on eBay [...]