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Post by buhi on Mar 16, 2016 20:19:10 GMT 7
My mother had a Chinese vase. I doubt it was a real Chinese vase, probably a cheap copy from Walthamstow market.
I loved Walthamstow market as a baby, my earliest memories.
Back to the vase.
No digress.
Grandmother, father's mother collected Toby jugs. They were weird, , I would now say obscene, amusing. I had as a three year old no idea.
The vase was a point of focus. Strange shapes, dragons, birds, plants, script, ( I could not read anyway).
I remember that vase.
I wanted to go to that magic land; a land that was not Walthamstow.
Travel I did.
Always.
Never the leap.
I understand that vase now.
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Post by rgs2001uk on Mar 16, 2016 22:03:59 GMT 7
Robin summed it up years ago.
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Post by rgs2001uk on Mar 16, 2016 22:05:31 GMT 7
Egyptian Cream,  . |
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Post by rgs2001uk on Mar 16, 2016 22:07:21 GMT 7
Ever heard of this guy buhi? , he summed up Thailand before I ever set foot here. |
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Post by smokie36 on Mar 17, 2016 0:42:33 GMT 7
I've broken so many vases over the years I'm probably still due a thick ear from my mum...and dinnae you be telling her blether!
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Post by buhi on Mar 17, 2016 1:44:14 GMT 7
No, not my point.
I will make it silly:
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Post by buhi on Mar 17, 2016 1:53:37 GMT 7
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Post by smokie36 on Mar 17, 2016 1:53:52 GMT 7
Ahhh I used to go to the auction at the Southwark community hall...lots of tat there...Toby jugs a favourite.
Long closed now...when the Borough Market had two stalls it was thriving with locals...now it's the reverse.
Shanghai I want to visit now after <Bunny boiler> glowing review...so many places to see!
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Post by buhi on Mar 17, 2016 2:10:25 GMT 7
When I was a child, six or seven, I used to pass the old mens' club, the, I cannot find it on google, the ex soldiers club.
My father laughed at them. Charity for what, they are alive.
I never understood.
China vase.http://images.proboards.com/v5/bbcode/quote.png
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Post by buhi on Mar 17, 2016 2:15:52 GMT 7
So was he and asked for nothing.
OK rsg?
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Post by bowie on Mar 17, 2016 2:32:37 GMT 7
That wine is good.
Wellllllll
andddd f theee bastards.......
And they all lived happily ever after.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 16:02:18 GMT 7
I've got several Chinese vases, all hideous. Gaudy with gold embellishments, swirling dragons what you would call ultra kitch. Courtesy of mum-in-law who's tastes border on the ultra extreme. I made a hole in the bottom of one to use as a plant pot and she was scanadlized, went on a rant that vase was very old. Well how was I supposed to know the monstrosity was very old.  Now that's supposed to bring bad luck. It is almost a metre tall and my white azaleas look good in it. The others are packed away, one I use as a pasta holder as it's got a lid. Anyway I collect masks, have many old Chinese Opera ones gracing my study walls. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 17:52:35 GMT 7
^Cool. I have two Chinese vases as well. The girl who used to live here left them for me because I asked her. I haven't used them yet, but they are nice to look at.  White with many dragon, flower designs. This thread reminded me to start putting flowers in them. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 17:55:07 GMT 7
Honestly one of mine looks like an urn to put someone's ashes in. It's probably Qing dynasty or something.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 18:08:39 GMT 7
I have a few boomerangs. I can't throw them away.
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Now that's supposed to bring bad luck. It is almost a metre tall and my white azaleas look good in it.
