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Celadon is just one of the beautiful glazes used on Chinese ceramics. The colour is derived from iron and ranges in tone from putty to sea-green. It is also intended to reflect the wide range of greens found in jade. It is usually greenish, high fired and applied to the surface of white porcelain.

We should remember that in 17th century Europe, porcelain was known only by rare examples from China. No one is sure of the real story behind the name ”Celadon”, but two rather romantic stories survive.

The first entails the French, who were captivated with this new and refined ceramic ware. The story tells of the name being derived from a shepherd, the principal character in a popular 17th century, French pastoral romance, L’Astrée by Honoré d’Urfé. In this early operatic style production, the hero “Celadon” was characterized by a pale green cloak and it is supposedly from this cloak that we now identify the  jade green glaze!



It was the French, who, in fact, not only gave us the name for this colour but also a full range of other sublime coloured glazes, still used as standards in the West today to identify the major range of Chinese ceramic colours. Some of these names will be familiar such as “Famille Jaune”, or, the yellow family of glazes in which yellow is the predominant colour, “Famille Noir”, or the black family of coloured glazes, “Famille Rose”, or the pink family of colours and “Famille Verte”, or the green range of glazes.

The second story that persists is another romantic tale, this time set in the Middle East. This jade green porcelain was greatly prized throughout the East and we know from court records that in the year 1171 Salah-ed-din (Saladin) Sultan of Egypt, sent as a gift, 40 pieces of this ware to Nur-ed-din, Sultan of Damascus. It is from the name of the Sultan “Salah-ed-din” that the name “Celadon” is said to have been derived.

This version of the two stories is thought to be the most probable, however, it really is a case of which story you prefer!

Wherever the name originates, the glaze we know as “Celadon” is today still as popular as ever with its elegant, cool, jade green depth of colour



A very decorative pair of mirror image, Chinese Celadon table lamps.

The shaped lamps with a pale Celadon glaze and fitted with naturalistic handles.

The lamps decorated with mirror shaped reserves well painted in polychrome enamels with subjects of Mandarin pheasants perched in peonies and water birds at a lotus pond. The lamps with original gilded copper caps, standing on well carved custom made rosewood bases.

This pair of well proportioned lamps were made around the turn of the 20th century and have been  restored and rewired to original condition.

Overall height (including shades) 19″/48cm                Circa 1900

The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique table lamp lighting with an on-line range of over 100 unique, antique and vintage lamps on view.

Lamps are shipped ready wired for the U.S, the U.K and Australia.

You are invited to visit their web site at www.antiquelampshop.com

© The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co 2009

Professional Web Design Company is a one, which gives professional services in website design, logo design, apart from designing the concepts for appealing websites. However, it becomes very hard to find a professional website design company from the crowd! Not all web design companies providing design solutions are professional and value client’s needs. Only a few handful of them exist, of which again very few have a professional way of treating web design requirements of their clients.

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Data transfer allowance is the quantity of data that is allowed to be downloaded from your website. Web hosting providers normally impose data transfer limits because the more data that is transferred, the more they have to pay for their connections to the Internet.

It is very easy to calculate how much data transfer your website is likely to use. Simply look at the average size of one page of information (text, images and any other content) and multiply it by the number of times people will (or do), on average, visit the site on a daily basis. You can then multiply this by 30 for a monthly data transfer estimate.

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A problem you have probably already noticed with this is estimating data transfer usage before actually having your site online. Although there’s no way to accurately do this, the type of website you have can give you a good idea of how much data transfer it will require. Message boards and blogging sites, for instance, often cause a lot of data transfer because users often return to read and reply to new messages.

A corporate website designed to profile a company, however, would require less data transfer allowance, as users are much less likely to return often, and if they did, their browsers probably wouldn’t have to download much because the content would be cached on their computer.

Web hosting companies offer a lot of different data transfer allowance options, but for a completely fresh site, you should look to not spend too much money on data transfer allowance at first – most, if not all, web hosting companies allow you to upgrade your data transfer allowance at any time, so a sudden surge in users (after an advertising campaign, for example) can be accommodated for easily.

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