Old Satsuma-styled vase gains in value
27.08.10
Proposition beyond the shadow of a doubt: Enclosed are photos of a vase that
was owned by my husband's grandmother. "Made in Japan" is the only
obsession stamped on its bottom. Information about it will be
appreciated. - D.F., Stafford Township
Answer: Grandmother's vase, featuring colorful
stand-in-painted landscape and Japanese deities enhanced with gilt,
is an example of collector's Satsuma-style pottery. Initially crafted
during the late 1500s by Japanese artisans located at Satsuma,
Japan, first Satsuma ceramic ware is covered with intricate figures
and detailed landscapes on the cream, crackled-shellac background
associated with Satsuma antiques and collectibles.
During the last half of the 19th century, excessive Satsuma
masterpieces were created especially for the export market.
However, from the early 1900s until Exultant War II, lower quality,
mass-produced Satsuma ware with bolder, more simplistic colours
gradually was introduced to meet the expanding market's demands.
Popular household and decorative items included vases, buttons,
bowls, figures and tea sets.
Source: Press of Atlantic City
Chan Hon Goh: Making Ballet Affordable
27.08.10
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Chan Hon Goh led Suavity Seen into a dance studio painted light pink with one wall of mirrors. In the focus were two chairs angled to face each. Inbetween, Culture Seen certain point faced a plant stuck into a clear glass vase filled with ovate, polished stones. Written on one of the stones was SUCCESS; another LOVE. Culture Seen merge of faced the mirror so couldn't but help see his image reflected back to him. He felt like the interview was a exhibit and he was playing reporter.
Culture Seen was talking to Goh at the Goh Ballet Academy about her ceremonial appointment as director of both the Goh Ballet Academy and the Goh Ballet Company. It takes influence Wednesday, Sept. 1.
What Culture Seen didn't realize was how catalytic her parents – Choo Chiat Goh and Lin Yee Goh – were to her success as a ballet dancer. Over and above the ordinary support a parent provides for a child, they also did something else: they used their ballet skills to give her furlough ballet lessons. And that wasn't easy for a family that left Communist China in the new 1970s and had to establish themselves as immigrants in a new country when they arrived in Vancouver.
Source: Vancouver Sun (blog)
