Fake Chinese Porcelain Starter Guide
Unless a piece is typical of its type, trying to get Chinese works of art and porcelain correctly appraised and valued is nigh on impossible. The three factors causing this …
Chinese Antiques – Fakes & Forgeries
China: Faking It
China is one of the world’s largest auction markets, generating billions of dollars each year. And its ultra-wealthy are cashing into the world of quick returns.But not everyone’s a winner.The …
$3500 For A Lump Of Plastic On Ebay
Just watched this sell on ebay – $3500 for a piece of modern plastic, when will the madness stop? Day in day out is see high prices being paid online …
Fakes in the Art Market: How a Dealer Turned a Lemon into Lemonade
Shirley Mueller, MD For me, this story is very strange. A dealer sold me a fake. Then, he resisted taking it back. To put me further off from returning it, …
Fakes plaguing Chinese antiques market drive boom in research
Art advisers and dealers have been building private libraries of auction and exhibition catalogues in a bid to plug gaps in provenance. A growing desire to understand and prove the …
Chinese Auction Houses Need To Take A Leaf From Cao Zhao’s Book
When in 1388, during the first years of the Ming dynasty, Cao Zhao, an author from the Yangtze city of Songjiang, published the Ge Gu Yao Lun (Essential Criteria of …
Analysis and Treatment of a Chinese Ceramic Mortuary Figure
Abstract: Chinese ceramic funerary figures are found in many museum and private collections. These figures are often discovered to be restored originals, forgeries or restored forgeries. The Buffalo Museum of …
Irradiated ceramics, acid dipped bronzes, cut & shunt paintings – Whatever Next!
With the boom in the Chinese economy comes a demand among the Chinese nouveau riche for fine art and antiquities. But all is not always what it appears to be. …