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The curse and blessing of HK's dirty air

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Peter Bentley 彭达理
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« on: August 04, 2015, 10:15:15 pm »

Hi  Tom

Thanks  for  the  input

The  strangest  thing  is that   when  Song Yiming  came to my  home  and   saw  that  carp bottle     which I  bought  via  a  third  party  several  years  earlier  he  dismissed  it  as a  "sideline"   thing  and nothing to be  proud  of 

But  I  still  regard  it  as  one  of  his  finest   works  ever.

I  simply  can't  explain that  fact

The  same  goes  for  my  prime  /  super -  prime  Fu  Guoshun bottle  which  (if  there   are  no  final technical  hitches)  will    feature  in  the  ICSBS  Autumn  Journal .  For  that  bottle  I  paid  RMB 43,000  =  US$ 5K ++   depending  on  what  exchange rate  you use  at that  time.  That's the  most  I ever  paid  for  any bottle  in RMB    direct-from- artist   in   all  my  life.    I now  see  minor   FGS  bottles   selling for  RMB 150K  in  Henghsui   at  WXS's    shop    and  US$  hundred  thousands  at  HK  CAC. 

What  does  all this  mean ?  In  monetary   terms  a  lot 

But  in  REAL  ART TERMS  much  more, very much more.  I  love  my  little  collection  just for  its  beauty,  and  no  other  reason. 

Beethoven'  9th  largo  has  just  turned  on..........

Love to  the  world

Peter

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