DIA180mm, Hong Kong
Who needs pearl when you have mother of pearl!?
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DIA160mm, Hong Kong
This neckwear has been sprinkled with a spoonful of jade beads.
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DIA160mm, Hong Kong
For the Mountain Folkcraft Something Old Something New Jewellery Collection, we have designed a series of unique neckwear and here is one of them.
Its ingredients are;
turquoise,
silver,
glass beads,
amber,
coral,
jade,
& lots of passion in design.
W40xD40xH80, China
Every time I see this snuff bottle I feel as if this ought to be a bottle for some cold remedy. The red cap on the monkey’s head reminded me an emergency siren or more the flashing light of the ultraman.
W160xD55xH90mm, China
Anyone know what is function of this tool? Advice needed!
A small gift will be sent to the person with a convincing answer.
What I have been thinking so far;
- the bottom curve is similar to that of a rolling machine (e.g. fire cracker roller)
- a rod can be fixed through the circular hole with a wooden pin then attached through the top opening
- the pin will be limited the rolling extend of the rod
My idea has came from the fire cracker roller machine where the bottom curve acted as a roller producing hollow paper tubes for the fire cracker.
L75mm, China
Tobacco was not introduced to China until the 17th century (imagine a smoke free China!), it very quickly became a hit in the Guangdong region through trading with the Philippines (then Spanish colony). Nowadays, the paper wrapped tobacco cigarette are held between 2 fingers to be smoked, in old China smoking was a refined business. There were different tools for smoking (see water pipe), one of the common tools is the Yan Dai Guo, it consists of a pipe stem, a tobacco sac (the chamber of the pipe) and a mouth piece. In the old days both men and women would carried with them these smoking items together with a tobacco bag (dried tobacco storage), there is an old saying that goes; tobacco sac is inseparable from the tobacco bag, the old chap is inseparable from the old wife. The pipe stem for man is normally 150mm in length and the ladies very longer and has a smaller mouth piece. This jade mouth piece would have been used by a middle class lady, the material of the mouth piece would tell a lot of the social status of the person (just as watches is for today), a common folk would use bronze while the well off would use materials such as jade, ivory, silver or gold.
TOBACCO SERIOUSLY DAMAGES HEALTH
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