ALL CHINESE ANTIQUES ARE FAKES OR COPIES UNLESS AND UNTIL PROVEN GENUINE.

A visitor from Duncan, South Carolina searching for “antique chinese jars Malacca” which I do not know what kind of jars, he or she is referring to and maybe jars that was referred have been sold making it difficult for me to know what are the items which was being referred.

Recently there were few auction places which came up in Kuala Lumpur with a number of interesting artefacts. It needs the items to tell the visitors to know in order to be interesting and not the ones with certificates. It has been a long time that business rivals run each other down by spreading that which dealer is selling fakes and not willing to tell what is genuine. This was joined by collectors and experts and due to this motive I discover that experts collectors and dealers are no good telling what are good antiques and also that fakes, copies or imitations can be easily produced making stupid collector to pay high prices for artefacts which can be available from factories.

It is of no use owning a piece of genuine items without knowing the characteristics for the item or items. There were cases where good genuine items were thrown away and also cases of bad accusations against dealers which I had experienced and also found some confusing results in scientific tests.

Kuala Peranakan Porcelain Shop

A visitor from Singapore searching for “kuala peranakan porcelain shop” which is easy to find. First look for the place then the shop. Road directory instrument like GPS will be helpful. Keep on searching and do not give up.

 I found events in collecting Chinese Antique Porcelain more amusing but because we do not have the same horizon but we live under the same sky makes the jokes shared in small area.

I have been told that sometime in June 2016, the experts cum buyers from the People’s Republic of China are coming over to Malaysia to look for Chinese antique porcelain and these are the learned people  was here last year and they are unlike the most of collectors whom I have met.

 During the recent days before the weekend I was told to go to an auction preview and I called up my friends and the whole group of us had enjoyable hours because the items for auction were genuine. I hope that in future there will be more events like this to keep up the interest for collectors.

I noticed that most of the Nyonya porcelain wares can be bought in Bandung and Jingdezhen whereas good items like blue and white and others need to be sourced and in the chance of a lifetime you may get it or may not get it. It is said and known that Chinese Antique Porcelain can be easily imitated in Bandung and was joined by Jing dezhen later. Learn to tell what is and what is not the imitations made in these two places and also write down the discovery for your follower or followers. Proving is most important in authentication and many collectors based it on reign marks by saying that the reign marks tells the time of manufacture but these collectors don’t want to admit to the fact that new made items with reign marks can be produced in Jing dezhen today. There is a way to tell and to test whether the artefacts are old or new but many collectors are not willing to listen and understand. A friend told me that you talk based on facts but the other chap talks based on the way to confuse people. This chap is a collector with many pieces highly valued.