Arguments

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All authentication must have details in the findings so that to minimize errors or mistakes. Collectors who wants to bulldoze their way by saying “yours are fakes, mine are genuine” will not be successful. I am sure that collectors should know GENUINES, BANDUNG COPIES OR FAKES AND JINGDEZHEN COPIES OR FAKES and not just pluck the facts or details from the air to confirm genuineness.

My friend and I were at the museum and there was an authentication session and two men brought one item each for authentication. One is a Blue and white Mei ping vase and the other is a Blue and white pear vase and from far I was able to tell that the two items were copies and my judgement was same as the experts from Peoples’ Republic of China. When the expert told them the items were copies, the two men raise their voices against the Chinese expert and the expert’s student started taking photos of the items. I then told my friend that there is no need for them to raise their voices. If I were to be the expert, I would ask them to lay down the characteristics of genuineness. There was no characteristic on the two items to tell that is genuine. It was then when we were at the museum canteen that I came to know about the argument through the expert’s student. The expert’s student told us that they claim that the items are from their grandparents. I then cracked a joke by saying that the items was from the Yuan dynasty grandparents time or which generation. The expert’s student who was then seated at the same table having his lunch felt more relax by my joke and I further added that such grandfather and grandmother stories don’t work and I told him I could easily furnish him with the characteristics on the genuine piece and expert’s student then told us that the two men tells stories but the two items tells different stories and the three of us had a lot of fun. I then told my friend that there is no need to raise voices as to genuine or fakes.

I realized that my slogan “ALL ARTEFACTS ARE FAKES UNLESS AND UNTIL PROVEN GENUINE” work well.

By now year 2015 has ended and most of the characteristics on genuine one are known so that Bandung copies and Jing dezhen copies will not be sold as genuine.