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Palm Beach Hosts Rare Asian Antiquities Feb. 17th-21st

The Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show will be hosting an amazing collection of Asian art and artifacts, during Presidents` Day weekend, February 17th-21st in West Palm Beach, Florida. Ralph Chait, T.K. Asian Antiquities, and Jem Hom and China Gallery are among the exhibitors who will be available. T.K. Asian is offering some incredible works from the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.), including the largest pieces of architectural relief stone ever discovered.

A resident of China, Teller has made numerous trips to that country, almost on a monthly basis, since the 1970s. Over the last 30 years he has developed extensive on-site scientific research, conservation and restoration facilities and has acquired one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese artifacts in the world. Teller called the relief stones `Historically important, with illustrated scenes of social activities - events of significant consequence as well as philosophical and mythological beliefs.`

`These incredibly rare Han Dynasty architectural stone relief stones were created for royalty,` said Michael Teller, founder and president of TK Asian and one of the world?s preeminent authorities on Chinese antiquities. He stated that these highly unusual reliefs are of a size and medium rarely seen. `Fragmentary panels have been encountered over the years, but to find them up to ten-feet in length is both historically and artistically meaningful.` The animation of the horse figures displays lively poses rarely seen in pictorial art of this time, he said, and due to the amount of interaction of the figures, `it could take months to decipher the ideology and connotations found on these pieces.`