Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on February 6, 2014 · Leave a Comment
CHINESE EXPORT SILVER: Discovering the New Master Silversmith of Shanghai 中國出口銀器: 發現上海的新銀匠大師 Having researched Chinese Export Silver for well over three years now, I was quick to realise very early on that anything connected with Chinese history and culture is likely to be complex, to say the least. I have since realised that it is […]
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Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on January 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment
CHINESE EXPORT SILVER: The Longest Tea Party the World’s Ever Seen! PART 2 中國出口銀器: 有史以來最長的茶具 之二 We continue the story of the inextricable link between the China Tea Trade and Chinese Export Silver with two images that are rather at odds with each other. The picture in the header to this article paints a rather […]
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Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on November 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
For Chinese artisans, boxes have always been more than mere utilitarian objects. Over the centuries, special decorative techniques were developed in order to make them extraordinarily special, while the amount of decorative detailing lavished upon boxes is often excessive relative to the size of the object or the purpose it was made for. Cultures vary […]
Category meta museum · Tags Adrien von Ferscht, CHINESE, Chinese Export, chinese export silver, EXPORT, Khecheong, Kwong Man Shing, Luen Wo, Scottish Centre for China Research, SILVER, University of Glasgow, Wang Hing, Wu Hua, Yi Tai, Zee Wo
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on November 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment
At the back end of August this year, the Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auctions had consulted with me regarding some items of Chinese Export Silver due to be consigned in a mixed silver sale for 5th November. They did it of their own accord, as opposed to my usual hectoring of auction houses at half-hearted […]
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on September 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment
CHINESE EXPORT SILVER: The Ultimate Tea Ceremony 中國出口銀器: 終極茶道 Chinese Export Silver was very much a product of the China Trade which in itself was a phenomenon born out of the long-established silk and tea trades between China and the West. Tea, like silver, is very much embedded into the Chinese psyche. Unlike in China, […]
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Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on August 5, 2013 · 1 Comment
One of the many advantages of being known as carrying out in-depth research into Chinese Export Silver and its complex history is that I receive a huge number of images from people from around the world. The volume has increased as readership grows; a noticeable spike in the graph occurred when I began collaborating with […]
Category meta museum · Tags Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Adrien von Ferscht, Cheng Du, chinese export silver, Christopher Hunter, KHC, Khe Cheong, Li Sheng, Luen Wo, Meta Museum, Wang Hing, Yi Tai
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on February 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
NO SPITTING IN THE SILVER VASE! 在银色花瓶的没有分散! The Chinese Export Silver spittoon that thought it was a vase! A few weeks, I featured a vase in the an article entitled “Chinese Treasures That Come and Go”. While the “vase” still is as stunning, quite soon after publishing the article I discovered the vase was […]
