Message #48091

[forestman]

Dear Joey,

I know you are not an Ebay watcher but most modern bottles seem to have stoppers and spoons coming from what could be a single supplier.

Could the fact that you have seen dozens of these red stained spoons over the years and that YF Yang said that most were in Shandong bottles be explained by numerous Shandong artists getting their spoons from one supplier ?

I'm just putting it out there as a possibility that, to me, has some logic to it.

My spoon seems to be red stained ivory and isn't really a spoon in that it is shaped like a spear head so has no "cup" to hold snuff. I don't know if the other red stained spoons are the same as mine. I have another spoon that is made of bamboo and has some red markings on it but may have been shaped from the bamboo frame of a broken fan or something similar.

I broke the frame as carefully as I could as it could be worth more than the picture. The gesso broke cleanly so went back together well.

Regards, Adrian.