Unusual Porcelain House Bashny.Net

The main attraction of the Chinese Tianjin - extraordinary Porcelain House, which adopted its present appearance thanks to the efforts of local businessman Lianzhi Zhang (Zhang Lianzhi) .Vsyu life he collected antique porcelain. They had accumulated a huge number, and that is not good for nothing pylilos, he decided to decorate collected china old mansion.

At the finish of the building it took five years. For visitors Porcelain House opened Sept. 2, 2007 goda.Samo building was constructed 100 years ago and carried out in the French style. 50-year-old businessman bought the vacant building for its porcelain collection for 1 million yuan (US $ 160 thousand.). Previously, it housed the Central Treasury Department of the Qing Dynasty, and since 1949 - the bank.

The house is decorated not only porcelain, but also the white marble and natural crystals. For the decoration of the building was used by 3000 antique porcelain vases, from the period of the Tang Dynasty (618-907.) 4,000 dishes and bowls, dozens of tons of fragments of porcelain, crystal, agate, 400 marble elements with thread. All it cost Zhang Lianzhi to $ 65 million. At the same time he was actively involved in finishing work.