On the1st, April this year a friend who works for a Chinese
Newspaper company and a collector in Chinese antique porcelain items brought
two items, one is a Ming dynasty Blue and white cover jar and the other is a
Ching dynasty polychrome enamel jar. At the time he contacted me, I was at my
niece’s coffee shop having my lunch. I then told him to come over to the coffee
shop and at the coffee shop, my niece, mee stall operators and customers pick
up some knowledge about antiques and a day of fun for my friend and others.
Before my friend left the place, he told me that nobody has told him what I had
told him about the characteristics from the old pieces.
Collectors with knowledge will only have fun in collecting
Chinese Antiques. Dealers will want to profit from sales but for me I had
already in my blog that “Do not become a collector if you have not started to
be one” and to be a good collector must be able to let any man understand how
to tell the items are old or new. Collectors will only want to insist that the
items that they have collected are genuine and loudly claimed that they are
“antiques” but I claim that all antiques need to be proven to be genuine in
order to be “precious” or of high value.
Malaysia has been a difficult place to carry out antique
business so it would be better carry out this business in another country. No
local collectors want to see my things and when I have no business, I have to
look for a good way to make my livelihood. I recall a call off deal and this
incident involves three parties one is my father, the second is a couple who
has been a long time customer and the third is a busy body who like to check at
this couple buying. This couple was not happy with this man’s action and to
protect customer’s relationship we had to do was that based on trust to send a
Ching dynasty Yung Cheng period (A.D. 1723- A.D. 1735) Clair-de-lune big mei
ping jar with embossed flower to this couple’s house before this man sees the
item and later the husband of this couple came with a friend took another same
jar with other flower. These two mei ping jar was left with the couple for a
while and the wife told me to take back two jars, the husband asked me why am I
in a hurry to take back the two jars and my reply is that your wife told me to
take back the jars (husband wants the two jars and the wife do not want the
jars) and that when I am free things need to be done I will do. The wife called
up to negotiate the price for the jars which is priced at Rm16,000 she got
angry and throw force at my father to take back the two jars and saying that
the two are only few thousand ringgit worth. I remembered very well that this
happened that while I was busy accompanied my mother doing some shopping and
when my father told her that Ronnie will only be available in about an hour
time and she replied saying that the two jars are taking up the spaces where
painting job and my father was forced or compelled to send my younger brother
to take back the two jars. Later I found out that experts told this couple that
many things that are for sale at my father’s place were fakes. After my
father’s passed on this couple discovered the truth and contacted me to buy
Chinese antiques but prices have changed which made them difficult to buy.
The two jars which are not for sale and with other things
beautify my house very much and also it teaches me not to share knowledge with
others. Recently I came to know an uncommon musical instrument tuner in
Malaysia who died without teaching anyone how to tune and this person has also
taught me “not to teach others children to be clever” is a Chinese proverb. All
along there are no good collectors in Chinese antique porcelain and many are
bogus experts and collectors. The largest part of fun is to know and see
collectors and experts embarrass themselves.
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