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New Course: learn about collecting Chinese antiques, ceramics, Tibetan art, textiles and chinese furniture.
This fall of 2011, Roger Schwendeman and Chris Buckley, specialists in Chinese Antiques, will be conducting a unique series of classes on Chinese Antiques (course listing below). These sessions are intended to provide pointers for negotiating the maze/minefield that is the Beijing antique market and for finding genuine items of good quality. The first sessions begin on Friday 23rd September 2011 starting with antique furniture related topics.
All classes are from 10.30am to 12pm approximately. Allow longer for field trips for traveling time. Classes are limited to 12-15 people per session depending on venue. Offsite field trips are limited to 15-20. Seats are first-come first-served so if you have interest please RSVP your intention without delay.There is a fee of 200RMB per class.
If you would like to sign up for a session please click here to sign up:
http://www.antique-chinese-furniture.com/blog/events/
chrisbuckley888 (at) Hotmail.com
roger (at) antique-chinese-furniture.com (or call 13051440767)
Chinese Furniture (01) - Classroom session
Roger will introduction to buying antique furniture in Beijing, covering types of furniture, wood and surface finishes, distinguishing new from antique, “what’s hot” in the furniture market, ordering new/reproduction pieces.
| Session | Date | Time | Location |
| 01 | Friday Sept. 23, 2011 | 10:30 AM – 12 – 12:30 PM | Gaobeidian |
| 02 (repeat) | Saturday Sept. 24, 2011 | 10:30 AM – 12 – 12:30 PM | Gaobeidian |
Chinese Furniture (02) – Field Trip
Roger will host a guided trip to one of Beijing’s “industry only” antique furniture markets to see “furniture in the raw”, with the chance to pick out unrestored furniture for later restoration. Roger is well known for these trips and will take you to places that other furniture dealers would like to keep secret.
| Session | Date | Time | Location |
| Field Trip | Sunday 25 Sept 2011 | 10 AM | Gaobeidian |
Tips for Collecting Antiques in China (Roger and Chris)
Roger and Chris share their experiences in collecting antiques in China, and in particular in Beijing. Topics include:
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- a brief introduction to north China (Neolithic and bronze age cultures up to the present day)
- types of antiques available in Beijing markets
- genuine items versus fakes
- collecting strategies
- prices and market trends
- how not to get “taken for a ride”
- exporting your antiques (exportable items and problem areas)
- packing and shipping your antiques. (With practical examples)
Private Sale – Unique Beijing Hutong Shopping Experience
Please mark your calendars! Merci de marquer vos agendas !
La Maison Taupe will be opening its shopping doors once more for two days of carefully chosen selections of rare and unusual antiques, folk art, furniture, bags, accessories and children’s cashmere in the idyllic surroundings of a downtown courtyard house. For two days only, enjoy a great opportunity to purchase gifts, treat yourself, or just to listen to expert Roger Schwendeman talk about Chinese antiques. We hope to see you on October 14th and 15th for another Hutong Shopping experience near the Lama Temple.
Dans le cadre idyllique d’une maison au coeur des hutongs,La Maison Taupe reouvre ses portes pour deux jours de courses d’antiquites, d’art populaire,de meubles et de cachemires pour enfants. Nous esperons vous y accueillir les 14 et 15 octobre pour une seconde experience << Hutong Shopping >> pres du Temple des Lamas.
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Susan Alberti
Roger Schwendeman
Mandarine Coco
Shanghai Trio
La Maison Taupe
Shanghai Trio
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606 Yonghe Villas,
22 Jianchang Lane off Guozijian Street,
near Lama Temple Beijing, China
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14 October @ 10am – 7pm
(open for late night shopping!) 15 October @ 10am – 4pm
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Further information available by email: lamaisontaupe @ yahoo.com / roger @ antique-chinese-furniture.com
Pour plus d’information, merci de me contacter par email: lamaisontaupe @ yahoo.com / roger @ antique-chinese-furniture.com
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- Beautiful antique bamboo side table from Shanxi province
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- Antique chinese black lacquer coromandel screen
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- 2000 year old Han dynasty earthenware vase
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- A beautiful antique rattan basket
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- Antique shanxi painted trunk with stand
Deutsche Botschaftsschule Peking – Antiquitätenkurs mit Roger
Deutsche Botschaftsschule Peking
Patengruppe
Einladung an „Neu und Alt“ in Peking
Dienstag, 09. März 2010,
10:00 Uhr bis 12:00 Uhr
Antiquitätenkurs mit Roger (in Englisch)
Wann: Dienstag, 09. März 2010, 10:00 Uhr bis 12:00 Uhr
Wo: In der DSP
Was: Roger (ein Englisch-Muttersprachler, der auch perfekt Mandarin spricht) ist der Chef von ACF (Antique Chinese Furniture) China Co., wo er mit Importeuren, Sammlern, Händler und Liebhabern rund um die Welt zusammenarbeitet, um chinesische Antiquitäten zu restaurieren und zu exportieren.
Während seiner vielfältigen Reisen hat er schon viele Tausende antiker chinesischer Möbelstücke gesehen, untersucht, gekauft und gesammelt.
Er gibt uns eine Einführung in das Thema “Chinesische Antiquitäten”. Dabei lernen wir auch Charakteristika kenne, die es uns leichter machen sollen “echt” von “unecht”, “alt” von “neu” … zu unterscheiden. Natürlich nicht zu 100%, aber vielleicht mit etwas besserer Trefferquote als bisher …
Wenn Ihr neugierig geworden seid, seinen Blog findet Ihr unter
http://www.antique-chinese-furniture.com/blog/
Wie: Kosten: RMB 150 Anmeldung bis Freitag, 5. März, bei der Patengruppe unter
PatengruppeDSP@gmx.de
Der Kurs findet erst ab einer Mindestteilnehmerzahl von 5 Personen statt.
Eure Patengruppe
Sabine Czajor und Sabine Schmitgen
ACF China in the New York Times/Herald Tribune
Pretty neat. If anyone can pick up a copy for me it would be much appreciated as I have yet to see in print.
Reactionaries? Make That ‘Collectors’
By DAN LEVIN Published: February 3, 2010
Original article online at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/garden/04chinese.html
TREASURE HUNT A worker at the ACF China furniture factory with a refurbished trunk.
CONTESTANT No. 3, a portly man in suspenders named Cui Xiaosong, clutched a golden mallet and gulped like an executioner having second thoughts. As a guest on China’s wildly popular antiques reality show “Collection World,” Mr. Cui knew he might have to get violent before the next commercial break. The victim? A delicately painted vase he had brought to the show, which he believed to be from the Qing dynasty and worth about $30,000.
“If it’s a fake, will you smash it?” asked the program’s white-gloved host, Wang Gang, as Mr. Cui faced the studio audience and three guest judges.
Mr. Cui nodded. The audience quieted down and Mr. Wang used the final minute to impart a bit of wisdom about collecting antiques in modern-day China: “Just as China opened up, so too is collecting about opening the mind to understand the outside world.”
It was hard to tell whether Mr. Cui was listening, but he certainly heard the host announce the judges’ verdict: “It’s a modern reproduction!”
Mr. Cui winced as he swung the mallet, shattering the vase — and with it his dreams of the wealth it might have brought at auction. Cue the instant replay.
Some four decades after the Cultural Revolution, when many of the country’s centuries-old treasures were defaced or destroyed as a result of Mao’s command to eradicate “the four olds” — old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits — China has reversed its attitude toward antiques. Ming dynasty porcelain vases, 19th-century hardwood furniture and even early 20th-century calligraphy ink pots have become popular status symbols for an emerging middle class eager to display its new wealth and cultural knowledge. The antiques market has become so hot, in fact, that it has given rise to a new category of must-see TV here.
CHINA PASSA A DAR VALOR A ANTIGUIDADES
CHINA PASSA A DAR VALOR A ANTIGUIDADES
Por DAN LEVIN
PEQUIM – Cerca de quatro décadas após a Revolução Cultural, quando muitos dos tesouros centenários do país foram desfigurados ou destruídos graças à ordem de Mao de erradicar “os quatro velhos” -velhas ideias, velha cultura, velhos costumes e velhos hábitos-, a China inverteu sua atitude em relação às antiguidades.
