Expert Datuk Suzuki

I have been a member of the South East Asian Ceramic Society (West Malaysian Chapter) in the early 80’s and my name is listed in one of the back pages of the book “Celadons and other related wares”.  I left the society because I will be listed as a trouble maker who wants to find out more about porcelain which is a wide field but once you know how to handle problems it is no longer a wide field.

Being the second eldest in the family and a total of nine family members, I helped to build this antique shop. The badwill was the attack on my father’s reputation that he is selling fakes. From then on I continue to study further in Chinese Antique Porcelain like Genuine ones, Bandung copies or fakes, Jing dezhen copies or fakes, Genuine Nyonya ware and its fakes, Genuine Peranakan ware and its fakes and leaving unsolved Pua Nguar ware (told by one scholar Mr. Goh at Amcorp Mall that there was no Nyonya ware in the 60’s) and its fakes.

In the earlier years there were many experts and most of the gatherings are held at homes of the members and I know that it would be a waste of time to attend such gatherings because when I raise any questions and the speaker could not answer will leaving me and the speaker disappointed.

One of the important expert that I left out in my earlier posting for this blog is Datuk Suzuki and he was recommended to my father’s place by Puan Sri Eileen Kuok, a close friend of Toh Puan Bunny Suffian and Puan Sri Eileen Kuok is the wife of Tan Sri Philip Kuok a former ambassador to Netherland and later to West Germany. Datin Suzuki has accused my father for selling a fake Yuan dynasty item as genuine and when my father asked for proof, Datin Suzuki claimed that Datuk Suzuki is an expert and I am also very happy that there are grand masters around to help to authenticate so that society will not fail from success.

Recently I visited some of the web sites and discovered that tour studies trips were organized and if the answers were not given to genuine and fakes, the trips will be just an ordinary tour. I also came to know that some of the Chinese experts in Chinese porcelain do not understand very much in authentication.

One friend of mine called Robert told me that one of his friend wanted to buy a tester to confirm antiquity. I then asked him the origin of the machine he replied he doesn’t know and how reliable is this machine he also said he do not know. He wants the convenience to use the machine to confirm the antiquity of the item. He told me that there will be a group of Chinese experts from People’s Republic of China who are ready buyers coming in June 2016 and he will be inviting them to see his collection. These experts had been invited to a friend’s house in Taman Desa, Kuala Lumpur during their earlier visit.   

 Another Chinese friend told me that he wants to go to Borobudur, Indonesia to check on two Buddha heads and I was curious to find out how the Buddha heads look like and told him to e-mail to me the photos and after he did and one month later I call him to come over to have a look at a temple near my house to see whether the material used to make the dragons and phoenixes are the same and he confirms it is the same because I cannot confirm the materials using the photos.