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Peranakan, BabaNyonya and Straits Chinese are all names used for the descendants of early Chinese traders, mostly from the Fukien province of China, who can trace their migration to the 14th century.
Southern Malaya, Malacca, Penang and Singapore Peranakan, all translate from Malay as descendant, Babas referring to male descendants and Nyonya to female descendants.
Historically, the Malay Peninsula was divided into small kingdoms, or Sultanates and it is to the kingdom of Malacca that we...
Antique Accent Lamps - A Little Classic
Accent lamps are the little charmers of the lighting world! Antique accent lamps may be small but are underrated for the immense charm they can impart.
Charm is a word we hear very little of these days, although it's something we naturally look for. We may not often hear the word, but there's a part of us that seeks it out. Charm can be defined in a number of ways: - to attract, or delight, to enchant. Charm is alluring, or pleasing, a particular quality that attracts and delights.
Accent...
Antique Lamps - Bisque Porcelain Lamps
Bisque porcelain or biscuit porcelain, takes its name from its first or initial firing, when the brittle porcelain could be snapped off like a biscuit. Bisque porcelain is also widely known as biscuit ware, unglazed ware and more popularly as parian ware.
All bisque or parian porcelain is unglazed and in Victorian times was admired for its sculptural qualities. The name Parian is in fact attributed to Thomas Minton, the famous 19th century English potter, who coined the name Parian...
Antique Lamps - Dresden, a Lost History
The subject of "Dresden" porcelain is not only vast, but can be a complete minefield. Dresden is more of a region or style than a single maker and basically one with a lost history. It's not what's known about Dresden, but what's not known about Dresden that's central to the subject.
Geographically, Dresden is situated on the river Elbe, about 100 miles /160 km south of Berlin and is the capital city of the German State of Saxony.
When mention of porcelain and Saxony are used in the same...
Antique Lamps - A Jasper Accent Lamp Inspired by Wedgwood
The English county of Staffordshire is synonymous with the production of porcelain and pottery. Staffordshire is uniquely positioned with all the potting clay and the plentiful water supply necessary for the manufacture of fine ceramics.
Potting in Staffordshire has had an uninterrupted history of over 300 years, with many household names originating from, what were often, very small, family potteries. Principals amongst these are names such as Wedgwood, Minton and Spode, many of these famous...
Antique Lamps - English Printed Blue and White
I believe that nothing holds more quintessential charm than early 19th century, English, blue transfer ware, otherwise known as "blue and white".
Charm is a word we hear very little of these days, although it's something we naturally look for. We may not often hear the word, but there's a part of us that seeks it out. Charm can be defined in a number of ways: - to attract, or delight, to enchant. Charm is alluring, or pleasing, a particular quality that attracts and delights.
By charming I...
Antique Lamps Decorative Lamps For Interior Design
I must first admit to being a convinced photophobic, a term defined as an intense aversion to strong light. On entering a brightly lit room, I find myself subconsciously groping for the dimmer switch! Bright light is good - in an operating room, an airport or film shoot! but, definitely not in a comfortable room. In fact, a room ceases to be comfortable when lit like a night time tennis tournament!
A successful interior project must have successful lighting, lighting being an integral...
Antique Lamps - Kung Hei Fat Choi
"Kung Hei Fat Choi!" or "Happy New Year!" - the great festival of the Chinese speaking world. It is unknown exactly when and how this event began, except to say that with China's 5000 years of history, not being able to recall the beginnings of such celebrations can be well understood.
In contemporary China, the New Year celebration is known as the Spring Festival and is considered one of the most important events in China. This important occasion carries with it certain obligations for...
Antique Lamps - Withstanding the Test of Time
Classic looks and style are one way to approach decorating your home. The advantage is, of course, that 'classic' means timeless - leaving you in no fear of the vagaries of fashion when it comes to your décor! In the twentieth century design often gave way to function and in the period following both world wars 'utilitarian' design was based on functionality not looks. Later in the century and at the start of the current century design and function have been re-combined as equals in the...
Antique Lamps - Good Taste
As Oscar Wilde said - "Good taste is its own reward". In opening with this well known Oscar Wilde statement, I was lead to try and define just what "good taste" actually means. What I found was a queue of definitions, all eager to be heard. However, the following definition seemed to me, to strike a note.
"The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performance, the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence,...
Antique Lamps - The Finishing Touch
When it comes to interior design, the finishing touches can make, or break a scheme. Getting the light just right is essential and can turn a house into a home, at the flick of a switch! The result is a home creating an ambience of warmth and comfort.
Antique lighting can be the ultimate in completing a stylish interior design scheme and not necessarily confined to period interior, or the eclectic collector / decorator. Antique lamps can work surprisingly well in even the most modern home....
Antique Lamps and Lamp Shades
Antique lamps are a timeless design classic that can suit just about any interiordesign scheme. Like other design classics, their appeal lies in not just theircharm but their adaptability along with being entirely functional.
Lighting ahouse creates the finishing touch that turns it into a home. Antique lamps are available in a wide rangeof designs and styles, from the classic Georgian styles, to Chinese andJapanese porcelains, or to the vintage designs of the 20th century.
Whatever style...
Antique Lamps and Interior Design
In the UK in 2008 a Bristol pensioner chained himself to a lamppost and went on hunger strike. His protest was against the removal of Victorian lampposts from the city's streets; illustrating that those passionate about quality design and heritage will do just about anything to protect it.
However, apart from, perhaps, Bristol City Council, there are people out there who appreciate the timeless quality and design of domestic scale antique and vintage lamps. A visit to some antique shops...
Antique Lamps as a Wedding Gift
Wedding season is upon us, and not just "that" wedding. While certain high profile couples have asked for donations to their favourite charities instead of setting up a wish list, there are plenty more who haven't. What's worse is, it's the ones that you are actually going to be invited, where presents will be required.
Wedding lists from major stores certainly help with the perennial question of what to buy, but if the couple in question are close friends or relatives you may want to get...
Antique Lamps - A Beautiful Investment
There is something just a little bit special about antique lamps. In this modern age of mass production antique lamps take us back to a time when decorative items were painstakingly manufactured by master craftsmen. But before we make a purchase we need to acquire collector's information, as antique and vintage lamps span a broad spectrum of styles and quality which can suit all tastes and requirements.
Investing in Antique Table Lamps-
Another key benefit of buying antique table lamps is...
Antique Lamps and Lampshades - Nina Campbell's Shoes & Handbags
According to world-renowned interior designer Nina Campbell, "Lampshades are like the shoes and handbags of the home: the right shoes can make an outfit - but if you have the wrong shoes, you can feel old-fashioned in the smartest suit". She further adds: - "They also need to be beautiful" - how true!
When it comes to polished interior design, getting an interior looking just right can be tricky, (which is why God made talented interior designers in the first place)!
Getting it wrong can be...
Antique Lamps - Vive Le Roi ! (Long Live The King)
The importance of interior lighting is an undisputed fact with the table lamp making a major contribution.
The illumination of a room, hall or living space, is only half the story, for a lamp, when viewed as more than "just lighting" can serve, along with pictures and antiques, not only as a work of art, but a functional work of art, offering visual pleasure while fulfilling a most practical role.
We have before us today, a very wide range of shapes and styles from which to choose, from the...
Antique Lamps With a Pearly Glow
Pottery is a survivor! If there is one thing that is found on an archeological dig, its pottery. While wood, fabric and other materials having long since gone, maybe not a complete vessel, perhaps just pottery shards, but usually enough for an accurate dating to be made. These surviving specimens are very often pre-historic, clearly demonstrating early mankinds use of clay and water!
There are many types of pottery and porcelains with histories long forgotten and it is one such as this that...
Antiques - What Does Soft Paste Porcelain Mean?
Every niche subject has its specific, descriptive words, its recognised terminology. These are words of international understanding, conveying a clear picture of the object being described.
In the world of antiques this is extremely important, particularly when the object is not able to be seen and handled by the person receiving the descriptive information.
Antiques are a vast subject and each category under the title of antiques has its own specific terminology. Key descriptive terms are...
How to Choose the Perfect Lamp Shade!
Your beautiful lamp sits in just the right corner in your favourite room providing a welcome glow each evening. It may have once belonged to mother or that of a favourite aunt or perhaps you spent years hunting through antique shops? But as elegant as the lamp base is, the shade has never been entirely suited. It's seen better days & the style could be more sympathetic. Sooner or later it's going to have to be replaced.
As all discerning decorators know, finding the right lamp base is...
Tea For Two
The tea we drink and know so well is actually a camellia, Camellia sinensis.
First discovered as a tea, or, dried leaf tip that could be added to boiling water as a drink.
Its discovery was due to the ancient Chinese culture of herbal medicine and is traditionally attributed to Shen Nong, said to have lived about 2.500 years ago.
Teas origin was as a medicinal herb, used to clear the mind and was promptly adopted by scholars and Buddhist monks during meditation.
Although tea had been...
Antique Lamps A Lamp With a Message!
We have all heard about the message in a bottle. Here we look at an antique lamp with an ancient message!
The story of Siddharthas transformation into the Lord Buddha, meaning one who has awakened, is well known to both the East as well as the West, with a growing Western interest in his life and teachings.
Every one has heard the name of the Buddha, born, by common tradition, about 565 B.C. Very few of the details of the Buddha's life can be verified, and it is difficult to determine...
Art as an Allegorical Figure
Mankind has always been attracted to beauty. At no time through the long passage of history has humanity not been expressed through art.
In every corner of the world, in every society, known as civilized or uncivilized, art, as an expression of that society, has flowered.
We can still look with admiration at great, early Egyptian art and at the unsurpassed sculpture and architecture of classical Greece.
In Australia, anthropologists recently discovered, a long gallery of aboriginal art...
Antique Lamps - In Peking Glass
In our modern world, glass is an every day part of life, but this was not always so.
The elegant and ethereal medium known as glass is simply and basically made of sand and, or, silica and a flux; sodium or potassium. These elements fuse together when melted at a very high temperature, resulting in the product readily recognised as glass.
Glass is an ancient invention, having been produced for the past 5000 years and particularly since the development of techniques in the 18th century. The...
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