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2010-06-03 12:34
We have put the following items on E-Bay:
1. Side table, ming style. black lacquer with horse feet
2. Chinese tophat officials chair
3. Japanese storage coffer
4. Elm wood tea table
5. Red lacquer altar table
6. Japanese usabata (large incense burner)
7. Japanese Kutani jar
More thorough...
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2010-06-03 12:33
As a collector, it gives me great pleasure to use something that has been around a very long time and is still functional. For instance, the other day I moved an old Chinese scholar's desk (mid-19th century) into my office and chucked the drop-leaf table I had been using. The "new" to me desk...
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2010-04-27 14:33
Original Ming furniture is very hard to come by and can be very expensive. We are fortunate to have found a pair of small "country" Ming cabinets at relatively reasonable prices. Be aware, however, of the difference between Ming and Ming Style items. Just like with early American furniture,...
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2010-04-27 14:32
We just found out that The Grill will serve lunch during our May Day sale! The new chefs are terrific and
I’m sure you will enjoy it. Also, the weather forecaster has promised a warm sunny day so please come on
out and enjoy Pultneyville. Remember, our friends at Artisan’s...
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2010-04-15 22:33
On May 1 we will have a sale of many items in the shop. We will soon be offering items on e-Bay and we want to give our friends and fans the opportunity to purchase pieces at our e-Bay minimum prices before we put them on e-Bay. In addition, our neighbors at Artisan's Loft and BeaLine...
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2010-04-05 14:46
Here we are on our newly designed website. With this total redesign came a Facebook page and participation on Twitter. More changes are in store as we work to modernize our digital presence. However, one thing hasn’t changed: wonderful Asian Antiques!
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2010-04-01 18:32
For those of you who are knowledgeable and familiar with export porcelain from Asia, this blog will be very basic. However, we hope that readers who have only recently become interested in Chinese and Japanese porcelain find this helpful.
The subject of Export Porcelain is both simple and...
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2010-03-29 16:56
We contracted Asian antique fever when we moved to Singapore in 1990. Poking around one day in Tanglin Shopping Center, a haven of antique shops, Tom spotted a pair of black panels on which figures of a Chinese Emperor and Empress had been superimposed. The figures were made up of many colors...
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2010-03-29 16:55
Have you ever found an antique chair (or anything else, for that matter) that had specially worn areas? Perhaps on the arm rests? Or the lower cross member where someone rested their feet? And when you find something like this, you wonder “Who sat in this chair, all those years ago?” Did...
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2010-03-29 16:54
I had always been interested in crackled Celadon porcelain (more on this in another blog) but my serious "I've got to have that!" experience was with the black pieces of the Song (Sung in some pronunciations) dynasty of China. My first ever porcelain purchase was the black glaze jar with brown...
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