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Hi Short Dong,
All good advice given, as I tried to outline to you a week or so ago.
Collect quality and avoid damaged items.
Mark
Mark,
🙂 Yes, and it is hard to get those items. I did a rush job to patch together enough to hibernate with a good antiques book and learn. I am not ready for the next step yet. I will need an exact plan before I start spending larger sums.
However while i haven't posted the items here, i did get some pristine and good long term pieces that i can re sell of required from some of the big seller's and i did take heed of your advice Mark.
I intend to post a chronology with a picture by picture chart of my start to finish of all the Antiques i have gotten in the last few months. However i will need to appraise some of this stuff first so I can chart them Quality versus Time of purchase in the learning curve.
It will be so much fun to do that...providing the quality versus price improves along the way, I know at the start i was terrible so there will be some very distinct upturns in the timeline, and i hope it doesn't plateau, but from my last batch there are some doodies in there, so will be some downturns but hey it can't always sunny in the Antiques Index.
I think i must have 100+ items collected.
Dear Short Dong,
I'm delighted by your obvious enthusiasm for antique Chinese porcelain, and long may it continue. But please take note of the advice posted here, and I would like to draw your attention particularly to the advice of tam18, among the others, about how best to proceed.
It would be sad if your enthusiasm turned sour as a result of too many bad buys. Read the advice you've been given in these posts and take it to heart, otherwise not only will you be out of pocket in the long run, you will also become disheartened. Both those things would be a pity. The acquisition of knowledge is a slow and arduous process. There are no quick fixes and instant results to be had. Take your time, study, learn.
What you might do is, buy one or two really good items from reputable sources, from one or other of the main auction houses, for example, if you can afford to do so. Once you have some real objects to handle and reflect on, your abilities to appraise items when you come across them elsewhere, in shops, flea markets, eBay, or wherever, will be so much the greater.
All good wishes,
Alan
Very wise words from Alan here. I'd like to add that you can also learn from cheap pieces, if you define "cheap" not as 10 GBP or less, but maybe under 100 GBP. Small, undamaged pieces from different ages make a nice beginner's collection and just let you get the feel of a Kangxi glaze or a Ming footrim. You can then decide in which direction you want to specialize. Happy hunting!
Birgit
Thanks Alan and Shini,
Yes, Once the supply chain doesn't run out in the meantime 🙂
I always worry a huge and powerful corporation will buy all the Antiques on the market. Like Gold Finger from James Bond and hike prices to very high.
Hi Short Dong,
I do like your 'royal nippon' ware. You got them at a very attractive price assuming of course that they are not damaged.
The japanese market is still in the dull drums atm which makes for a good buying/investment for the future for the right items.
Mark
Hi Short Dong,
I do like your 'royal nippon' ware. You got them at a very attractive price assuming of course that they are not damaged.
The japanese market is still in the dull drums atm which makes for a good buying/investment for the future for the right items.
Mark
Thanks Mark,
I also am very fond of Nippon ware, There is so much porcelain like cups and plates and bowls from the 1930's onwards that are so alike so many 18th and 19th century that just based on a picture it is very hard to know what your buying.
Not from my perspective but from a future buyers perspective
So Nippon ware in retrospect should be much easier to sell in the future as it is well placed, to very unlikely to be confused with 1930's + products, and means if it is old it's more likely to be genuine. That goes even more so for Noritake nippon ware.
I would like to buy some cheap broken but real stuff to get first-hand information. This is a learning process.
In museum, one cannot touch it nor inspection using a loupe. So I agree with Short Dong on that sense. Once one gets to the high level, then collection of quality pieces only.
I would like to buy some cheap broken but real stuff to get first-hand information. This is a learning process.
I agree, it is a good place to start and many broken pieces are still lovely in themselves. They are just not normally a good investment but as a learning experience they are great.
Go to auctions, too. You can examine things as much as you like, also a great place to learn.
Julia
Good point, Julia. -Jim
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