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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 05, 2015, 02:12:57 am »

Hi Tom

The  story  behind that  bottle  is  stranger  than  you  can  possibly   think,

I  first   saw  the  bottle  in  about  2006 / 2007    at a  specialist    shop  in  the  same  block of   office  building / hotel/     shopping  arcades  where  my company has had  and still  haves   an office  :  Landmark   Towers  ,  next to the  Great  Wall  hotel


I    was  totally  into Chinese  landscapes  at  that  time  and  my  top-most  limit  was  RMB4K    so to  ask  for  a  goldfish  RMB15.6 K   bottle  was  way   WAY   far  outside  my  realm .

I recall   that I  repeatedly  went  back to to that  shop  and  looked  at that  "magic" bottle over   what must have  been  almost 2  years  .

Finally   in a    fit of   pique    after a    great company  sale  deal    which left  me on  a   huge    emotional "high:   I   trounced  my  RMB 4K  max  limit  and  bought  that bottle  for  RMB 6.5K   -  which for me  at that time  was  a  small  fortune.

It  was  only  much later   in  my  collecting  history  that I  realized  the  true value  of  that  bottle.  In  today's'  prices it  should  sell for  U$40K  because I  have never  seen  anything     that is   even   50%  close to  the   quality  of  the  painting

Actually  it  does not matter  WHO  painted  that bottle    -   whoever  it  was  was a  genius

It's  signed  by  Song  Yiming  and I  have   no doubt  that  he  - as a genius- -  painted  that  bottle  in  his more  youthful  years 

Such  are  the adventures  in VMIPB  collecting !

I  did   creative (music)  stuff in my own more  youthful  years that  leave even me  dumbfound  !

Cheers

Peter



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