Message #27901

[richy88]

Hi Yee Pin

Kwok Gallery has more snuff bottles when Patrick's father was running the business. I remembered I bought an inside painted bottle by Liu Shouben from the elder Kwok but even then, the price was not cheap. But it was a master piece and I considered it a fair price at that time.

Much later, most dealers suffered the same dilemmas of shortage of good quality stock. As Stanley Yang from Y. F. Yang in Hong Kong once told me: he  can only get mid range quality bottles which is neither here or there. To the collectors, the quality are not good enough, to the tourists, they are too expensive as souvenirs.

For your reference.

Regards.


Richard