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META-MUSEUM: THE TALE OF A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER HIDDEN GEM 中國出口銀隱藏寶石的那些事兒

Posted by on June 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

 THE TALE OF A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER HIDDEN GEM                                                                                        中國出口銀隱藏寶石的那些事兒 Being a […]

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META-MUSEUM: THE SILVER SHANGHAI JAZZ AGE 銀色上海爵士樂年代.

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THE SILVER SHANGHAI JAZZ AGE  銀色上海爵士樂年代. 1920’s Shanghai was New York without the speakeasies! It was a city ready, ripe and totally made for the Jazz Age and it did it with style. Known as the “Paris of Asia,” Shanghai boasted fine restaurants – it also had casinos, greyhound and horse racing tracks, scores of […]

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META-MUSEUM: OPIUM: THE DRUG 鸦片：药物 SILVER: THE SILENT OBEDIENT PRODIGY 中国出口银：沈默服从的奇迹

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18th and 19th century trade with, to and in China was convoluted, to say the least. China was a stage where two highly different cultures met. Mostly they clashed, sometimes disastrously, but despite this chaotic melange, some found a common ground – even a fertile ground where equally convoluted trade was carried out; trade that […]

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META-MUSEUM: 格伦伊格尔斯 Gleneagles: Scottish or Chinese?

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格伦伊格尔斯 Gleneagles: Scottish or Chinese?                                                                                                      […]

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Meta-Museum – NO SPITTING IN THE SILVER VASE! 在银色花瓶的没有分散!

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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 […]

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Meta-Museum – A RARE CHINESE EXPORT SILVER “MEGILLAH” FIT FOR A QUEEN 中國出口銀 复杂事情 女王/王后的适合

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A RARE CHINESE EXPORT SILVER “MEGILLAH” FIT FOR A QUEEN                                                                                                                                 中國出口銀 复杂事情女王/王后的适合   It was back in August that I wrote about a megillah made by Wang Hing that at the time I thought was unique and it’s perhaps rather ironic that I find myself writing about a megillah that not only outshines it, […]

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