Compiled from Arts of Asia March - April 1987
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Property from the Chu Mei Yun Collection, Fine and Rare Kesi Robe, possibly made for the Empress Dowager, circa 1908 |
Thursday, June 26, 2014
A Fine and Rare Kesi Robe (Possibly Made for the Empress Dowager)
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
A Fine Imperial Famille Rose Bowl Depicting Flowers and Birds For Sale
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A Fine Imperial Famille Rose Bowl Depicting Flowers and BirdsDiameter: 10.5 cmYong Zheng mark and period
Price is available upon
request. Please contact May at emperorsantique@gmail.com
for further inquiries.
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Sunday, June 22, 2014
Details to Emperors Antique's First Exhibition
We at Emperors Antique are pleased and excited
to announce that we are having our very first exhibition! Details are below:
Date: 5th July 2014
Time: 8pm – 11pm
Address:
Unit B-3-02 (3rd
Floor) Neo Damansara,
Jalan PJU 8/1, Damansara Perdana ,
47820 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor
Please
go to http://www.emperorsantique.com/contact-us/ to view the map to
our gallery.
Hope to see you there!
Warm Regards
May Naik
Co-owner of Emperors Antique
016 3639037
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Stamp Sells for Record US$9.5 Million in New York
Compiled from The Malaysian Insider
An incredibly rare 19th century
postage stamp, a tiny one-cent magenta from British colonial Guyana, sold for a
world record US$9.5 million (RM30.6 million) at a New York auction yesterday.
It took just two minutes for an anonymous collector on the phone
to seal the deal after quick-fire bidding opened at US$4.5 million in a packed
room at Sotheby's in Manhattan
The auction house had valued the tiny specimen of British
colonial memorabilia at US$10-20 million, an estimate which it said was
vindicated by the sale price.
"The stamp has just sold for approximately US$9.5
million, which means it has set a new world record price for a stamp,"
announced David Redden, the auctioneer and Sotheby's director of special
projects.
The previous auction record for a single stamp was US$2.2
million, set by the Treskilling Yellow in 1996.
Made in 1856 in Guyana
Redden told AFP that the one-cent magenta has a "wonderful
aura" which made it "almost the Mona Lisa of stamps."
He said he "did not know" whether the new owner would
add their own initials to the back.
Encased in glass, the stamp dates back more than 150 years and
has passed through great collections, now breaking a world record price four
times since 1922.
Last bought by convicted murderer and American multi-millionaire
John du Pont in 1980, it was last seen in public in 1986, before going on
display at Sotheby's in the build-up to yesterday's sale.
The auction house says the stamp is the only surviving example
of a one-cent magenta, so rare that it is missing even from the British royal
family's philatelic collection.
To view the full article, please go to
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/business/article/stamp-sells-for-record-us9.5-million-in-new-york
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Spanish Museum Reopens After Six-year Hiatus
Compiled from The Star
Spain’s archeological museum opens its doors after a massive renovation exercise that spanned six years.
SPAIN’S National Archaeological Museum reopens to the public on Tuesday after a massive six-year overhaul that aims to offer a state-of-the-art space for its collection of ancient artefacts.
The redesign of one of Madrid’s largest museums, housing items from prehistoric times until the 19th century, began in 2008 and cost Euro 65.2mil (RM286.54mil).
It has incorporated new audiovisual displays, maps and graphic panels to give greater context to the objects on display, which include Greek vases, Roman mosaics and ancient sacred artefacts.
The collection is spread around two interior courtyards now bathed in natural light thanks to new larger windows.
In the first room visitors will be greeted by two giant walls of images projected onto 350 small screens.
”The idea is to tell the history of the people who lived in the geographical area we now call Spain,” said museum director Andres Carretero Perez.
”We did not want to create an exhibition for scholars, we wanted it to be accessible for the greatest number of people and not be dry like history books.”
A total of 13,000 objects are on display in 40 rooms in a neoclassical building, in the heart of Madrid, which the museum shares with the National Library.
”All of these objects are important because they were chosen from the 1.25 million objects that are stored at the museum,” said Perez.
One of the star attractions is a celebrated Celto-Iberian bust from the fifth century BC known as “The Lady of Elche” depicting the bust of a woman wearing elaborate headgear.
The bust was found by chance in 1897 near Elche in southeastern Spain and bought by a French archeological connoisseur who sent it to France where it was displayed at the Louvre museum.
The French government returned it to Spain in 1941 under a deal reached with Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
The museum also features a reconstruction of Spain’s Altamira Caves and their prehistoric wall paintings of bison, horses, deer and animal-headed humans.
The room housing a replica of the remains of 3.2-million-year old female hominid known as “Lucy” features videos that show what life was like during the period when she lived. The fossilised remains were discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia by US scientist Donald Johanson and they are considered one of the world’s most significant archeological finds.
”The idea is not to see everything all at once. To see everything you would need two full days,” said Perez.
The museum was founded in 1867 to save and study archaeological objects collected by Spain’s monarchs.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy officially re-inaugurated the museum.
Tickets cost three euros (RM13).
Museum officials hope the revamp will double its previous annual visitor numbers of 200,000-250,000 people.
The museum is now also fully accessible for the disabled, with ramps and elevators for wheelchairs, commentaries in braille and replicas of objects on display available for the blind to touch. - AFP Relaxnews
http://www.thestar.com.my/Travel/Europe/2014/06/05/Spanish-museum-reopens-after-sixyear-hiatus/
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