Funny Experts

This week has been a real fun for me.  I met these people who want to be smart and one of them is a collector of willow pattern porcelain items and he wanted to lay a claim that one piece in his collection is special by having a few more birds drawn in flying in the sky on that piece and that he has checked in the internet about willow pattern to make comparison which resulted in his piece having more birds. To me is that what make the more birds important or special needs an answer.  I have a food warmer with willow pattern which I did not count the number of birds but I know it is a special piece which cannot be seen any for sale in the streets and furthermore I can tell it is genuine and I have no worry not selling it but has high value keeping it for pleasure or education purpose. To authenticate a piece with the extra birds is dangerous because to makers of imitations the few strokes are very simple from makers of “Bandung” or “Jing dezhen”.

One collector who also repair houses makes comparison with ceramic tiles and he told a group of us that new ceramic is very sharp and old porcelain are not sharp, I then asked him whether did he break up his pieces to authenticate and the whole group laugh at him.

 One antique dealer overheard my explanation to another antique dealer about old Chinese Teapots should leak and when this antique dealer saw me he was trying to hint me that what I said was wrong to a customer. This antique dealer has some teapots on display on his table and there was one which was fine crafted. There are confusions by collectors old teapots are valued by age and new teapots are valued by the beauty. Last year a maker has a piece priced at Rm.128,000 which is the highest and the rest range from Rm.98,000 to Rm. 1,500. I saw those teapots at a tea exhibition.      

One visitor to this blog from Singapore searching “antique authentication singapore”. I had already given the names of experts earlier in this blog. Saya tak tahu apa nak buat lagi kerana Bahasa Inggeris buruk.