Showing 1-13 of 13 results
-
Arch Angel Antiques
Though the specialities are antique and ancient porcelain and tombware, Arch Angel packs a lot more into its three floors: there's everything from mahjong sets and terracotta horses to palatial furniture. It also operates an art gallery, Arch Angel Fine Art (2854 4255; 38 Peel St), across the road that deals in paintings by Vietnamese artists.
-
Chine Gallery
The carefully restored furniture - the lacquered cabinets are fab - at this shop come from all over China, and hand-knotted rugs are sourced from remote regions such as Xinjiang, Ningxia, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and Tibet. It sells statues and collectibles too.
-
Christie's
Christie's has regular sales in ceramics, jade, jewellery, stamps, snuff bottles, art, traditional and contemporary Chinese paintings and calligraphy. It holds its spring (May) and autumn (November) pre-auction previews in the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai.
-
David Chan Photo Shop
If you've decided to give the digital age a miss altogether or at least still use film cameras, this dealer is one of the most reliable in Hong Kong and sells both new and antique cameras.
-
Everbest Photo Supplies
This extremely reliable shop is where many of Hong Kong's professional photographers buy their equipment. Same day or next day China visas are an odd but useful sideline here.
-
Hobbs & Bishops Fine Art
This shop smelling of beeswax specialises in lacquered Chinese wooden furniture from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its taste leans towards the sleek and handsome rather than gilded and showy pieces.
-
Honeychurch Antiques
This fine shop, run by an American couple for more than four decades, specialises in antique Chinese furniture, jewellery and Chinese export and antique English silver. There's a wide range of stock, from the early Chinese dynasties right up to the 20th century.
-
Karin Weber Gallery
Karin Weber has an enjoyable mix of Chinese country antiques and contemporary Asian artworks. She also gives short lectures on antiques and the scene in Hong Kong and is able to arrange antique-buying trips into Guangdong for serious buyers.
-
Liuligongfang
Exquisite coloured-glass objects, both practical (vases, candle holders, jewellery) and ornamental (figurines, crystal Buddhas, breathtaking sculptures) from renowned Taiwanese glass sculptor Loretta Yang Hui-Shan are on display and sale here. There's another branch in Admiralty (2918 9001; Shop 320, 3rd fl, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway).
-
Tai Sing Fine Antiques
Tai Sing has been selling quality Chinese antiques for more than half a century, with a special focus on porcelain. Two of the shop's six floors are now devoted to European furniture, including a dandy assembly of Art Deco pieces.
-
Advertisement
-
Teresa Coleman Fine Arts
This is the finest shop in Hong Kong for purchasing antique Chinese textiles, including rare chi fu , the formal court robes of valuable silk worn by the Chinese emperor, princes and imperial ministers. The shop also deals in Chinese export paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and antique fans.
-
Tibetan Gallery
This shop has an impressive selection of Tibetan religious art and artefacts, including mini-altars. You'll also find Tibetan furniture, silverware and rugs. There's a large showroom on the 1st floor.
-
Wattis Fine Art
No place in Hong Kong has a better collection of antique maps for sale than Wattis Fine Art. The selection of old photographs of Hong Kong and Macau is also very impressive. You enter the shop from Old Bailey St.
Showing 1-13 of 13 results
