Message #8064

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

I just found this now (in a manic search for peace from guests who are driving me batty! I was not this way, when Jeren and Donna Stoneman, and Donna's mom Joanne, visited me in Israel... my cousins are soooo irritating!).
The bottle indeed looks Moghul-style, but I think it is a modern copy, NOT 18th or 19th C. 'original'. It looks too good. I've said this before (ad nauseum!); the modern painters (in Blue & White), and carvers (in porcelain, glass, and hardstone) try TOO HARD to surpass the originals, and succeed; but that gives the game away.
Steven, good thing you didn't buy.
 Incidentally, I had a couple of Moghul-style jade SBs, and used to play with a bunch belonging to friends like Allie McReynolds, Neal & Frances Hunter, Edgar Wise, Bernie & Fran Wald, Edward O'Dell, etc, who would let me fondle their treasures when I visited. It just doesn't look right...
Joey