About Us
About
I’ve spent over 30 years quietly collecting Taiwan’s forgotten folk art—hand-painted plates, inscribed temple cups, and god statues once central to daily life but now almost entirely lost. I didn’t collect for status or profit. I did it because I knew someone had to preserve these things before they vanished.
My journey began in the back streets, markets, and temples of Taiwan, where overlooked pieces told deeper stories than anything in the glass cases of big-name museums. While others chased dynasty porcelains, I was drawn to local works full of spirit—shrimp bowls, rooster dishes, and god figures carved by anonymous hands for everyday devotion.
Today, I hold one of the most extensive private archives of Taiwanese folk ceramics and religious statuary:
Over 300 hand-painted ceremonial plates
More than 300 antique inscribed cups
Nearly 1,000 high-end Yilan god statues
I am not a dealer in the commercial sense. I don’t run a shop. But I do offer selected pieces for sale—carefully, and with full context—so they may find new homes with collectors, curators, and caretakers who value them. Each sale supports the preservation of the rest. This isn’t a business. It’s a cultural legacy I’ve spent my life building.
This website is my way of opening the collection to the world. Not everything is for sale. Some pieces are simply here to be seen, studied, and remembered.
If you’re a museum, researcher, serious collector, or simply someone who understands the soul of what Taiwan has nearly forgotten—welcome.
Joe