One visitor from New Delhi, Delhi India searching for “Fake
Peranakan Ceramics wareat the alley beside the museum”. Congratulations to this
visitor because he has known this place and was able to confirm the “Peranakan
Ceramics ware” were fakes. There was no mention which museum was having the
“Fake Peranakan Ceramics ware at the alley” as such I cannot comment or check on
your words to agree or not to agree with you without knowing the truth.
Many years ago, a
Professor from Jing dezhen, China who specialized in making porcelain items and
he gave a talk in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and during his talk, he showed some of
the call it what you like Peranakan, Nyonya, Pua Nguar, or Straits Chinese
Porcelain ware items recently made at that time and also there was a recently
made vase with a old bottom or base from a broken vase and the top is new which
means “new vase with old bottom or base”.
During this talk a good piece of advice is that do not throw away any
bottom or base of old items which may fall into wrong hands for making fakes,
copies or imitations.
After this talk I have a good laugh, the specialist in Jing
dezhen, China has to look for old bottom or bases of items to make fakes,
copies or imitations call it whatever you like, but the specialist in Bandung
was able to make fakes, copies or imitations call it whatever you like without
having to search and make use of old base or bottom which shows that the skill
in Jing dezhen is poor and that is why “Bandung fakes, Bandung copies or
Bandung imitations” are well known from the late 60’s.There are many frogs
under the nutshell and recently I met a chap who read my blogs and claimed that
the expert’ name that I mentioned has died, does it mean that all the students
that followed the these experts in studies or research has all died leaving no
collectors, students and researchers in this field.
Recently there was a warning to art buyers which I saw at a
vertical digital board at Old Klang Road telling to be careful. This advice
should be issued some 30 years ago so that many will not want to be collectors to
follow their friends who have a few items to show off which will not be “monkey
see, monkey do”. I have to advise not to become a collector wherever and
whenever possible.
