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The story about our chinese antiques At the end of the '70 s of the last century, China slowly started to open up. Deng Xiaoping was the first of a series of economically pragmatic leaders to come to power. One of the first Western politicans to travel to the "Middle Kingdom" at the beginning of the 1980s was Lothar Spaeth, the former Prime Minister of the State Baden-Wuerttem-berg, accompanied by a delegation of entrepeneurs. The prevailing mood at that time was one of great euphoria: everyone wanted to sell their products to China. There was, however, one entrepreneur in this group who was buying, not selling: engineering graduate Sefik Tuerker, the owner of Tuerkas, the largest oriental carpet wholesale business in Europe.   Sefik Tuerker was a member of many of the delegations who set off for China, and concluded deals worth millions of Deutschmarks. During his trips he became very familiar with Chinese habits and costoms. He made contact with some very influential people and was instrumental in the expansion and development of the famous carpet manufacturing business in Zhenping: with his expert help and support, the factory was very soon producing the finest carpets in the world. It was during one of his trips to China that Sefik Tuerker learned of the existence of certain warehouse containing a large number of antique porcelain vases, which immediately attracted his interest. After years of negotiations, Sefik Tuerker was finally able to look inside the warehouses, the first of which was near Beijing. Imagine his astonishment when he entered the storage hall: hundreds of vases - large ones and small ones, without protective packing, covered in dirt and, for the most part, smeared with paint - filled the warehouse. Only a few shafts of light illuminated the scene. What was definitely required in the gloom was the power of imagination to assess the "treasure" which had been brought to light. There was another warehouse of vast proportions near Tianjin, where the treasures were hidden underground; they had been buried many years before and therefore survived the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. Sefik Tuerker was determined to buy these precious objects: magnificent porcelain vases in quantities too large to count at first, some of them in extremely bad condition. But there were true gems hidden under the layers of paint and dirt. At the beginning of 2006, the company "Dynasty Arts" had the opportunity to purchase the entire collection of chinese antique vases, porcelain, jade, furniture and screens in the possession of Tuerkas in Karlsruhe (Germany), subsequently undertaking the cleaning and sestoration of the precious objects.