New Delhi Peranakan Expert

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.