I think I must have been a pirate in my previous life because my love for buried treasure has been burning since my baby feet first touched the ground. The tweeny pirate still has some buried "treasure" in her parents' back yard from her juvenile adventures and of course she owns the whole Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.
I bought this lovely vase today. Somewhere high up in the mountains of an island in the South China sea, I found a little Chinese shop with an owner as old as the cobwebs hanging from it's shelves. Between all the ancientness I spotted this little lovely and bought it immediately.
You might not be aware that this dusty pot is in fact quite the artifact to acquire. Since my childhood I have longed to own a real Ming Vase. You'll find them in the homes of Queen Elizabeth, Marie Antoinette and Indiana Jones. These porcelain vases date back almost 600 years to the Ming Dynasty, one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history.
Of course I don't think mine is a REAL Ming, but looking at my porcelain vase parading on my dining room cabinet, the seven year old pirate in me smiles a very satisfying smile :-D
