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« Reply #80 on: October 28, 2015, 06:57:22 am »

Hi Steve, All

I  am stepping  into   uncharted   territory here  and  am therefore  ready to  be  refuted

But  when I   was   first  buying    Chinese  artefacts  in  BJ  in the  mid  1980s  at specialist   shops  in LiuLiChang  I noticed  an interesting  thing. 

I had my  eye  on a  particular  small vase - beautiful  purple  glazing -  but the  price  was  astronomical.
When I asked  "why" so expensive it was  pointed  out to me that  it  had a  PRC  government  red seal on the  bottom which  showed that :

a)  it was  a  genuine antique (  Qing  dynasty,  or   something )

b) it  was  permitted  for  export

I could  in no  way afford  it !

But I  later  saw  similar  bottles of  (apparently)  identical  -  or  even better -  quality  and  beauty   which  were  contemporary  and of  course  very  cheap, one of  which  I bought  because  I  always  ever bought  for intrinsic  beauty,  not  for  historic  or  antique  value

It's   easy to  reproduce   porcelain  these  days  and  also the  authenticating   marks  on the  bottom, just  as it's  easy  to  reproduce  antique  IPBs  that  would   fool  even the  most  experienced  collector .  That''s  why  "Provenance is  King"  when  it  comes to   antique  IPBs

I  can  believe that the blue and   white   porcelain  snuff  bottles  Richard  Hardy  picked  up  in HK's   Catte  Street  flea  markets  were  genuine  antiques  because  they  left  China  before   1949 , went through  several changes  of  hands  and  finally  were sold  as  trinkets  before  their  true  collector  value  was  understood

As I understand  it :  Richard  Hardy built  his  collection  on just a   school  teacher's  salary because  he   collected  ahead  of time

But....  as  I    said  ...  I am  in uncharted  territory as  far as  my own knowledge  on  porcelain is  concerned

Cheers

Peter
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