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Chinese antique vases have always been very collectible.

There are many reasons for this. One of them is the amazing quality. The craftsmen often spent years as apprentices and a lifetime to harness their skills. Older vases are rarer, sometimes a vase will be unique and thus is scarcity will make it valuable.

As with a lot of Chinese antiques vases, there are so many varieties that many items are not catalogued and this adds to the interest. appeal and the chance of a valuable find.

Another reason for the popularity is the mystique that applies to them. In fact this applies to most oriental antiques. To people from western culture, oriental culture is often mysterious and intriguing and collecting something from these far away places can be fascinating.

It is difficult to know which area to specialise in, but the first thing to achieve is a general knowledge of Chinese vases, then you will have a clearer idea of what to collect. Some of the oldest antiquities from China are over two thousand years old and little remains from this period. From the Han dynasty (from 206 B.C to 220 A.D.) some items can be found.

These are usually items that have been found in tombs. These pieces often showed a green glaze and contained lead.

In the Tang dynasty (618 A.D. to 906 A.D.) Large tomb figures of animals with glazes of orange, brown and green have been recorded, these often have a silvery glaze to them. Stoneware vases were also found with a high quality glaze.

In the Sung dynasty (960 to 1279) carved and incised designs of great beauty are prevalent

The Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644) saw the area south of Nankin grow in to a very large and important area for manufacturing high quality porcelain. It was from this area that China owes its recognition for quality porcelain and its fame throughout the world. Such an abundance of good porcelain vases were produced here and although relatively rare some survive to this day. These can be distinguished by their under glaze of blue.

Other very popular and highly regarded vases from this period are the three coloured ones with raised threads filled with coloured glazes with an under glaze of blue. and an over glaze of red, yellow, green or brown-purple. This became known as famille verte.

Other factories produced fine white vases that are called blanc-de-chine (Chinese white). This style has been produced by other Chinese manufacturers for hundreds of years.

These are some of the main areas that you can collect the older vases from. What ever you decide to collect you will find this a fascinating and thoroughly absorbing hobby.

For more information on Chinese antique vases and free valuations please visit: http://www.squidoo.com/chinese-antique-vases

Antique Lamps by Edme Samson of Paris

Porcelain, along with many of our day to day products, was discovered in China over a thousand years ago during the Tang dynasty. That is why, in fact, in the West, we call it “China”, because that’s where it came from!

The discovery of porcelain in Europe, however, did not occur until the early 18th century in the German Princely Electorate of Saxony. The demand became a flood and vast amounts began to be exported from China.

The wealthy classes sent orders for dinner services via ships’ captains, who, twelve months later, would collect the service from the southern Chinese trading port of Canton. Many of these services were decorated with the family coat of arms of wealthy patrons.

 

 

They were produced for coffee and tea sets as well as complete dinner services and were known as “armorial” services. Very few have survived, complete and in original condition. As pieces became lost and broken, so the demand for replacements developed.

Edmé Samson specialised in the reproduction of Chinese export style porcelain from the period when it was fashionable for aristocratic families to order their services and shapes from southern China.

Edmé Samson, born in Paris in 1810, established the porcelain company of Samson-Edmé et Cie in the 1830’s. Samson began his career by producing replacement pieces, but it soon became obvious that his skill at reproduction resulted in superb copies of the original.

 

 

By the middle of the 19th century Samson was producing porcelain in all shapes and styles in imitation of all the major European factories, as well as Japanese Imari and the famous Famille Rose and Famille Vert styles produced in China between 1720 and 1790. In the 19th century Samson porcelain was considered as copies only, but now, Samson copies are antique, being over 100 years old.

The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique table lamp lighting with an on-line range of over 100 unique, antique and vintage lamps on view.

 

Lamps are shipped ready wired for the U.S, the U.K and Australia.

 

You are invited to visit their web site at www.antiquelampshop.com

© The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co 2009

About the Author

Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co ,has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery,with his commercial experience spanning a period of 40 years,including as a valuer to the Australian Government’s Incentive to the Arts Scheme. His long experience with antique ceramics and glass also includes dealing with leading museums and numerous international private collections. He has extended his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site, he is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects and has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.

Curriculum vitae; Application for French Job? Need help with translation?

this is for an application we're making in French class

for "situation de famille", what does the option celibataire mean? and what are some other terms I could put if I am not celibataire.

for numero de telephone:
what does bureau and domicile mean in this situation? If I put my house phone then what should I put in parentheses instead of those terms?

and for the "centres d'interet et passe-temps" how do I spell Chinese folk dance, Ballet, and Polynesian dance/Tahitian traditional dance
please take the time to answer this also, I would be very grateful

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071129181755AAWmGKm&r=w
pardon me, but I said in the first line of this question that it was for French class
it is not a real application or resume

1) Situation de famile:

Célibataire = single
Marié(e) = married
Vie maritale = domestic partner

2) Numéro de téléphone:

Bureau = work number
Domicile = home number
Portable = cell

3) Centres d'intérêt et passe-temps:

Danse folklorique chinoise, danse traditionnelle polynésienne et danse classique.

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