China Dating: Nepal foreign minister predicts improving relations with China
Kathmandu, 31st July: The historical good relations between Nepal and China dating back to thousands of years ago will be further strengthened in the new century, Nepali Foreign Minister Chakra Prasad Bastola predicted here recently.In an interview with Xinhua on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Nepal and China, Bastola said that since the forming of the diplomatic relations in 1955, the bilateral relations between the two...
China Dating: ART
"Dawn of the Yellow Earth: Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection" -- 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Tuesday-Sunday; 11a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday; closed Monday. Exhibit represents one of the richest collections of early Chinese ceramics outside of China dating back some 5000 years, through Nov. 12. Metropolitan Museum, 1555 Van Ness Ave. 441-1444. $6, $3 seniors 62 and older and children 3-12, children 2 and younger free.Folk Art of Oaxaca -- Hours are noon-5 p.m....
China Dating: Craving More `Old Blue' Staffordshire
Once easy to find and inexpensive, this fine china has hit the big time
Blue and white Staffordshire china dating from the 19th century is so popular as a collectible these days that pieces are now difficult to locate. ``It used to be easy to find and relatively inexpensive,'' says Dora Landey of Lewisboro, N.Y.But a tureen, underplate and ladle decorated with a historic place motif sold for a record price of about $35,000 several years ago at a New York City auction house, says Landey, an antiques dealer in Pound Ridge, N.Y.Since...
China Dating: Shop owner's got the blues
JOLLY antiques shop owner Susan Rumbold certainly does not live up to the name by which she is known in the antiques trade, Blue Sue.But her new shop, The Cat's Whiskers, in Kingsbury Street, Marlborough, gives an indication of how she came by the title.One wall is packed with blue and white china dating from the 19th century until the present day.She is also known as Flo, because she is particularly fond of the china which has a blue-misted background, known as...
China Dating: DISHING UP WHAT CUSTOMERS WANT
OLD CHINA IS STORE'S PATTERN FOR SUCCESS
If Winnie and Allen Murphey Jr. ever have unexpected company drop by at dinnertime, they'd most likely run out of food long before they ran out of dishes. They wouldn't cheat, either, and use paper plates. They'd proudly set out their best china.Princeton, a quaint town in the midst of cornfields. In addition to stocking patterns from 1940 to the present, Hoffman's houses more than 12,000 discontinued patterns, including china dating back to the...
