Unknowledgeable Collectors

A friend of mine brought a wealthy man who is a collector to my place to see my things and he said that my Yuan dynasty items are fakes and when I ask him to prove, he claim that he came to the wrong door step and I was told that he passed away.

A visitor from Woodside, New York searching for “Yuan dynasty porcelain plate” Yuan dynasty items are specially ordered for trade and most of the items are from good makers during the Mongul rule. Today there are a lot of imitations coated with mud. All the items whether genuine or fakes must be cleaned in order to make studies feasible.  Yuan dynasty plates are Mohamadan Blue which is violet blue and some are in underglazed red.

 Most of the searches are answered like 1) what is the value or prices. 2) Where to get antiques or looking for antique shops (answer are found in earlier blog). There two visitors 1) from San Jose, California searching for “original nyonya ware”. How to know which is original and not original because the same skill was used to make nyonya ware all along unlike the skill for making porcelain is different for different dynasties. 2) from kota bahru, Perak searching for “antique shops in bandung”. I must state that there are “bandung copies” which is well known. This visitor is an expert who is turning copies into antiques otherwise he won’t be searching for “antique shops in bandung”. 3) Visitor from Kuala Lumpur searching for “antique collector malaysia” which is difficult to find because the ones that I met are conmen and not truly antique collector. 4) Visitor from Menifee, California searching for “oriental chow table 6stool black laquar mother of pearl how much will it cost me”. It is difficult for me to say unless I have such stock then only I can tell you the price. 5) Visitor from Toa Payoh, Singapore searching for “gold kerosang nyonya”. There was a Kelantanese Malay man, I know sells Nyonya jewelry and I was told that he passed away and now his family members run a flea market stall on Sunday. 6) Visitor from Kuala Lumpur searching for “antique furniture malaysia”.  I have not come across any yet that is why I kept silent over it.