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Feast for curio lovers
Latest Updated by 2003-04-29 15:10:23
An antique show is being held at Huangbeiling Commercial City in Shenzhen from April 28 through May 3.
The show, the fourth of its kind held in Shenzhen, has attracted over 70 antique collectors and dealers from all over the country, who brought with them more than 100,000 artifacts.
Many of the artifacts on display are quite valuable and rare.
A face-shaped adornment, brought by a collector from Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan Province, can be dated back to the Yangshao Culture Period (5000-3000 B.C.). According to the collector, the palm-sized adornment was the symbol of a clan and was worn by the chief of the clan. The adornment was probably made with a stone or a bone, as human beings didn't know how to use iron tools at that time, said the collector.
A 30-centimeter-tall china vase from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) is bright-colored and flawless. There are patterns of blue, white, red and black colors on the vase, and all of the patterns were formed naturally in the kiln. Such a vase is very rare and worth at least 1 million yuan (US$120,482), according to experts.
A Hong Kong dealer offered to buy the vase at a very high price, "but the owner of the vase won't sell it, though he is not rich," said an organizer who was familiar with the owner.
The owner, who is from Henan Province, said he wouldn't sell his darling because he needed to communicate with it every day. "I feel the china is alive. It has secrets, and if you understand the secrets, you will be able to hear it singing. That song cannot be bought for money," he said.
Another china vase brought by the collector, a vase from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is regarded as precious by experts, too.
It is a shiny and glittering 22-centimeter-tall vase in the shape of a beautiful girl. Vases of this kind were the best of the time and were usually supplied exclusively to the royal families.
Local artists are no less enthusiastic about the fair. A Shenzhen collector has brought a jade bracelet from the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420). The bracelet is carved with patterns of dragons, phoenixes and tigers, and a line of ancient Chinese characters marks the producer and the production time of the bracelet. Few jade articles have such information, according to experts.
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By:Helen Deng Source：szdaily
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