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Secrets of Bali

by Jonathan Copeland

with
Ni Wayan Murni

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These small, hand made, exquisite, masterpieces are Chinese reproductions of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) styles used by the upper classes. The designs have a three dimensional effect and demand to be touched. Blue enameling was the favourite colour.

Chinese Teapot

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 12.5 cm, width 11.5 cm, depth 8 cm
Order Number: CSA1

Snuff Bottle 1

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 6 cm, width 4.5 cm, depth 3 cm
Order Number: CSA2

Background: Snuff bottles, which contained powdered tobacco, date back 400 years in China.

Snuff Bottle 2

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 5.5 cm, width 3.5 cm, depth 1.1 cm
Order Number: CSA3

Snuff Bottle 3

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 6 cm, width 3 cm, depth 2 cm
Order Number: CSA4

Snuff Bottle 4

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 6 cm, width 4.5 cm, depth 2.5 cm
Order Number: CSA5

Snuff Bottle 5

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 7 cm, width 4 cm, depth 2.5 cm
Order Number: CSA6

Snuff Bottle 6

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 2.5 cm, length 5.5 cm, depth 3.5 cm
Order Number: CSA7

Snuff Bottle 7

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 5.5 cm, width 4 cm, depth 2.5 cm
Order Number: CSA8

Snuff Bottle 9

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 6 cm, width 4 cm, depth 2 cm
Order Number: CSA10

Opium Box

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 6 cm, width 3 cm, depth 2 cm
Order Number: CSA11

Jewelry Box

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 3 cm, width 6 cm, length 11.5 cm
Order Number: CSA12

Buddha Snuff Bottle

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 2 cm,length 7 cm, depth 1 cm
Order Number: CSA15

Oval Pill Box

Material: Silver, agate, 29 gr
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 2 cm, width 3 cm, length 3.5 cm
Order Number: CSA13

Round Pill Box

Material: Silver, agate, 31 gr
Style: Chinese
Size: Height 2 cm,diameter 3 cm, circumference 11 cm
Order Number: CSA14

Wealthy Han aristocracy, Mongol and ehnic minority women loved silver bracelets. They were status symbols in the Qing dynasty. Affluent women commissioned silversmiths to enamel them.

Some were used as a betrothal gift. Manchu women wore one or two at a time, whereas minority women wear four or eight on each arm. Longevity and fertility symbols and flowers decorate the bracelets. Some are open-ended.

A prospective bridegroom presented a card proposing marriage to the bride's house, typically accompanied by a pair of bracelets and gifts of food and fabric for a wedding dress. The groom's family spent as much as they could on the bracelets.

Bracelet 1

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Circumference 20.5 cm, width 1.4 cm
Order Number: CSA15

Background: The extra-wide minority bracelets feature unusual designs with double fish, eternal knots, zodiac animals, crabs, bats, lotus flowers, geometric designs, scholar's objects and flowers.

Bracelet 2

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Circumference 23 cm, width 1.4 cm
Order Number: CSA16

Bracelet 3

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Circumference 21.5 cm, width 2 cm
Order Number: CSA17

Bracelet 4

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Circumference 21 cm, width 1 cm
Order Number: CSA18

Bracelet 5

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Circumference 20 cm, width 1 cm
Order Number: CSA20

Bracelet 6

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Circumference 21 cm, width 1 cm
Order Number: CSA21

Bracelet 7

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Circumference 21.5 cm, width 1 cm
Order Number: CSA22

Bracelet 8

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Circumference 18.5 cm, width 1.6 cm
Order Number: CSA24

Bracelet 9

Material: Silver, enamel
Style: Chinese
Size: Circumference 17 cm, width 2 cm
Order Number: CSA25

Women's hairpins in the Qing dynasty advertised her status and were a large part of her dowry. The parents of a minority girl might give her a single hairpin when she became 15 years old.

Wives of officials, scholars and successful merchants spent a lot on hairpins. Hopeful bridegrooms gave hairpins as presents. Each minority's hairstyle has its own hairpin, some of which are very elaborate.

They have designs for wealth, ferility and happiness. The lotus indicates purity.

Single-pronged hairpinsd are called zan; double-pronged are called chai.

The following hairpins are not reproductions and are old.

Hairpin 1

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Length: 11.7 cm, width 2.7 cm
Order Number: CSA26

Hairpin 2

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Length: 12.5 cm, width 3 cm
Order Number: CSA27

Hairpin 3

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Length: 19.5 cm, width 1.6 cm
Order Number: CSA28

Hairpin 4

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Length: 12.5 cm, width 1 cm
Order Number: CSA29

Hairpin 5

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Length: 13.7 cm, width 2.5 cm
Order Number: CSA30

Hairpin 6

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Length: 17.2 cm, width 2 cm
Order Number: CSA31

Hairpin 7

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Length: 16 cm, width 1.5 cm
Order Number: CSA32

Hairpin 8

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Length: 12.5 cm, width 1.5 cm
Order Number: CSA33

Hairpin 9

Material: Silver
Style: Chinese
Size: Length: 17 cm
Order Number: CSA34