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Tiny middle period bottle.

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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: May 08, 2017, 05:21:03 am »

Dear Adrian,

      I don't accept your thesis that the spoons are original because they are in different collections and the chances that 3 people would ALL choose red stained spoons, is beyond the realm of possibility. I have seen dozens if these poorly carved red stained spoons over the last
47+ years I've been collecting. And they are singularly unattractive.

     Thirty years ago, I asked YF Yang about them, and if they could be genuine late 19th/early 20th C.
      His answer was that, first, most were in Shandong bottles; second, all of them had gone through the PRC gov't selling org. in the 1950s-1970s, when they were trying to get foreign currency for the PRC. China was strapped for hard (read 'Western') currency.

      I was trying obliquely to point out that between the early 20th C., and the early 21st C.,
stuff could have happened to these bottles.
      Evidently, I failed in my attempt to be subtle...  Wink Roll Eyes

    How did you succeed in breaking the frame without damaging the gilt gesso decoration?
Best,
Joey
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Joey Silver (Si Zhouyi 義周司), collecting snuff bottles since Feb.1970

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