{"id":746,"date":"2007-09-14T07:30:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T07:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/garden\/planters\/antique-chinese-troughs-from-after-the-antique"},"modified":"2007-09-14T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T07:30:08","slug":"antique-chinese-troughs-from-after-the-antique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/garden\/planters\/antique-chinese-troughs-from-after-the-antique\/","title":{"rendered":"Antique Chinese Troughs From After The Antique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/images\/after-the-antique\/antique-troughs.jpg\" alt=\"Antique Chinese Troughs From After The Antique \" class=\"right\" \/>The Antique Chinese granite troughs now available from After The Antique the stonemasons, were a sell-out on the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stand at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chelsea Flower Show.<\/p>\n<p>In rural China, for thousands of years, every household had one or more of these massive troughs, used for many purposes, including (as the holes in the troughs confirm) tethering their animals.<\/p>\n<p>Migration from the land to the cities, has left these beautifully shaped and subtly carved pieces unused and liable to be broken up.<\/p>\n<p>After The Antique is now buying these pieces of Chinese history and bringing them to British gardens \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where they fit perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>The troughs range in size from approx 120cm up to 240cm long, priced at \u00c2\u00a3495 and \u00c2\u00a3895 respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Web:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftertheantique.com\/\">http:\/\/www.aftertheantique.com<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tel:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 (01366) 327210<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Antique Chinese granite troughs now available from After The Antique the stonemasons, were a sell-out on the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stand at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chelsea Flower Show. In rural China, for thousands of years, every household had one or more of these massive troughs, used for many purposes, including (as the holes in the troughs confirm) tethering their animals. Migration from the land to the cities, has left these beautifully shaped and subtly carved pieces unused and liable to be broken up. After The Antique is now buying these pieces of Chinese history and bringing them to British gardens \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/garden\/planters\/antique-chinese-troughs-from-after-the-antique\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[268],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}