Message #47830

[cshapiro]

Thank you Tom and George! It's great to know all this about Y.F. Yang because I bought two other bottles from this gentleman with the same provenance. The man I am buying from is 80, and his father was the collector. He kept hand written accounts of his bottles.  

The gentleman says his father also made a trip to China in 1980 and bought some bottles then from Y.F. Yang and his son S.K.Yang- so that must have been Stanley. It's interesting that the bottles he bought in 1980 were modern inside painted - while the older bottles were bought on the 1963 trip.

Also great to be mindful of what was going on in the country at that time. So the man must have traveled to China right about the time of the famines from the Great Leap Forward and the beginnings of the cultural revolution and so I imagine an antique would have very little value. Then he traveled again right after the revolution.

I haven't seen anyone write about that before on the forum - although I've read about it elsewhere - that a great deal of China's treasures that weren't destroyed must have ended up in the west during that time. What a tragic history China has. I was just reading again about the death tolls from the Great Leap Forward and it's hard to imagine. But there are conflicting reports - would love to get a real history lesson from some of our Chinese members perspectives.