Mr Bulldozer

A visitor from Kuala Lumpur searching for “where to buy antique original ceramic in Malaysia”. The answer is I don’t know. It has been all along that I have been trying to throw away rubbish in collecting Antique Chinese call it whatever you like “ porcelain or ceramic “  due to genuine or fakes. Collectors may have kept something good but when they meet the expert/s who tell them that they are fakes that is the problem. A Chinese newspaper claimed that experts wrongly broke thirty items out of the three hundred items that were produced for authentication due to wrong judgement. I have been telling people not to become a collector and this was mentioned in my blog. Most of them trusted the experts who are makers from the present factories. Many would want to base on scientific tests. This case that happened in Seattle was about a Chinese antique dealer has some items scientifically tested in Hong Kong to be genuine before they were sent over to Seattle for sale and scientific tests done in Seattle were fakes. I then took the trouble to find out more about scientific tests. If ten different machines made in ten different countries with ten different calibration then which country made machine is the most reliable. I made my round and I got the facts which answered to what I wanted to know. Museums are institutions for studies and I felt very bored because no one can produce or give me answers to the authenticity on ANTIQUE CHINESE CERAMIC. I was at a museum one weekend and a group of three was there for the same event, one of whom knows me is an arrogant man and he had even visited my place when large portion of my collection was in Malaysia. I then made my rounds and came up. Right in front two of his friends and myself, he uses words and not facts to bulldoze through and I then asked why do you want to collect antique Chinese Porcelain. The three of them stared, after my explanation I also brought up Chinese Teapot and further explain, two of his friends quickly introduced themselves by giving me their name cards and on the spot I told him and his friends that he has no brains but only want to bulldoze his way because he is somebody known in Malaysia now known as “Mr. Bulldozer”. When I meet such problem with collectors, I will just hint and walk away laughing.

The way I see is that Malaysia is not a good place for selling antiques and there are not many knowledgeable collectors and at the same time collectors wants to bulldoze  their way to authenticate their items by guessing and not facts. The way they authenticate is 1)well stained 2)well corroded which you take a stone from the roadside back to the house looks better. I had in fact stated that porcelain items are more important to the users than the makers because makers can produce porcelain items to any size and shape. Users in earlier years have to use porcelain items with care and the rich people can afford them. Call them what you like Pua Nguar(told by one Mr. Goh that there is no Nyonya ware in the 60’s and a known scholar in Malaysia), Nyonya ware, Straits Chinese Porcelain are one good example in a way studies in Chinese Porcelain. Why are Baba and Nyonya families keeping porcelain crockery wares and not the makers because they can produce the quantity they wanted. Pua Nguar or Nyonya ware, or Straits Chinese Porcelain became important because of its beauty and later Bandung copies (well known for copies started from the late 60’s) and Jing dezhen continued production. There is a lady who tells me the difference between the old and new nyonya ware but not on “Bandung copies”

Collectors should know better because any artefacts told by them to be old are always with them and they have the chance to study and by bringing to expert will only allow short time for studies and also that the expert may not have come across such artefacts. Experts may say what they like including imitations can be made exactly the same as originals which I have recorded from a talk by an internationally recognized expert. When such cheating cases can be easily made up then why be a collector or expert.  Being a collector is no body important but only a fool and being laugh at by others. Such practices have caused a lot of laughter and when I try sharing with them the facts, they tend to disagree because RONNIE NG IS THE SON OF NG TING KAU, THE OLD CROOK THAT SELLS FAKE ANTIQUES AT OLD KLANG ROAD and now I am happy for them to blacklist me and they are aware the danger in collection lies with the owner.