CHINESE EXPORT SILVER: THE Yokohama Conundrum! 中國外銷銀器：橫濱難題
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on July 10, 2018 · Leave a Comment
All world silver categories have their own peculiar, often unexplainable, anomalies; Qing Dynasty Silver [aka Chinese Export Silver] is not an exception. In the latter half of the 20th century, Chinese Export Silver was finally resurrected from the backwaters and a degree of investigation occurred, mainly in Massachusetts, having been a mostly unknown silver genus, […]
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Qing Dynasty Silver Meets the Ancient Art of Penjing 清代銀器遇上古代盆景藝術
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on June 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Bonsai [kanji 盆栽] has become known across the Western world as well as much of Asia, yet as an English noun it has only existed as a dictionary word since 1950 describing, in the main, the rather enigmatic world of individual miniature trees that have been painstakingly clipped and trained; it has morphed into being […]
DEFINITELY NOT A BAT OUT OF HELL! 西蝠非福，中蝠亦福
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on April 19, 2018 · Leave a Comment
DEFINITELY NOT A BAT OUT OF HELL! 西蝠非福，中蝠亦福 The auspicious attachment to the bat in China highlights how different two cultures can be. In the West, the bat has almost always had sinister overtones. In China, however, it was far different. There is an aura that has evolved around the Chinese Export Silver […]
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Chinese Filigree Silver Fit for a Queen 为女王量身定做的中国花丝镶嵌银器
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on October 29, 2017 · Leave a Comment
There is no set like it; nothing that even comes faintly near it. It is an extensive 47-piece suite of Chinese tea wares made entirely of filigree silver-gilt overlay, most pieces having a solid silver-gilt inner form. It was probably created in the latter part of the 18th century, the likelihood being that Canton was […]
假消息 Fake news? Western auction houses and e-commerce sites seem worryingly oblivious to the increasing presence of Chinese “copies”
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on October 20, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Few categories of antiques are immune to fakery; copies that manifest in varying degrees of passable authenticity, or at least at first glance. Fakes, replicas, copies – whatever one wishes to call them, have existed almost as long as the real thing and it’s been so for centuries and Chinese artisans have been considered the […]
God Help eBay et al 天助eBay诸君
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on August 7, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Nobody can dispute that the awareness of Chinese Export Silver has grown exponentially in the past five years; there’s also far more of it appearing in auction house sales – but is the understanding of it there? Chinese Export Silver is, by default, an extremely complex silver category and it is only recently that […]
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Sino-Victoriana 中国-维多利亚时期
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on July 2, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Sino-Victoriana 中国-维多利亚时期 From the mid 19th century, Chinese Export Silver spawned a decorative style that encapsulated the exuberance of a combination of two cultures, the very era itself and the vibrancy that was the China Trade. This made for a unique and interesting mix – the bringing together of these otherwise highly unlikely bedfellows created […]
THE CALIFORNIA GOLD-RUSH EFFECT ON CHINESE SILVER AND HONG KONG 加州淘金热对中国银器和香港的影响
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on April 24, 2015 · Leave a Comment
THE CALIFORNIA GOLD-RUSH EFFECT ON CHINESE SILVER AND HONG KONG 加州淘金热对中国银器和香港的影响 […]
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THE ABSENCE OF AN ASSAY SYSTEM 金银检验系统的缺失 HOW CHINA, A SILVER-OBSESSED NATION, MANAGED WITHOUT ONE 为银狂热的中国是如何做到的
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on April 7, 2015 · Leave a Comment
A nation with a 1400 year history of silver making and an economy that was obsessed with being silver-based until well into the 20th century, it is strange to learn that it could exist without any assay system. In the 155-year Chinese Export Silver manufacturing period, the vast majority of silver items that were made […]
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE TRIADS ON THE DECORATIVE ARTS IN CHINA 三合會對中國和香港的裝飾藝術之影響
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on June 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
THE INFLUENCE OF THE TRIADS ON THE DECORATIVE ARTS IN CHINA 三合會對中國和香港的裝飾藝術之影響 Style, the demand for style and the supply of style is an extremely fine-tuned, complex equation that only requires a small weakness in one element and the equation is compromised. Style icons are also an essential factor in creating a momentum for style […]
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