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Thank you for your advice. I'll probably make more extensive use of Peter's preview service in the future to keep down the loses. I don't really 'believe' I can unearth rare and unusual imperial masterpieces for bargain on the internet really - with some exceptions perhaps - which would be worth in the millions. The last one I tried my hands on seems to be a rather well-made and sophisticated replica unfortunately. I have obtained a couple of rare and potentially highly valuable Song pieces that I'm strongly convinced are authentic but I could well be wrong prefer keep these for myself anyway.
Now please give me a break so I can post some of the jades and other Chinese stuff I've talked about.
Unfortunately my phone on which I have most of the pictures of the jades I had in mind is almost not working so it seems I can't upload the pieces I had in mind. Maybe I can make it work later otherwise I would have to set the SIM-card into another phone. I'll see if I can dig through my other archives to search for pieces I've had on my radar-screen.
Meanwhile I can show this head of a stone sculpture that is available from the same seller as the liangzhu jade and the lacquer tray. No specific dating or region of origin is stated in the description but it looks Chinese to me. If someone here can tell if this is likely a modern replica or not it would be much appreciated.
Here is one of the jades I would like have acquired. I did however decide to leave It even though it sold below $1000 and thus was within reach. As usual the problem is the lack of provenance. It would likely date to the Han dynasty and appears to be authentic. A similar jade figure was sold through one of the majors with an estimate at hk$ 200,000 - 300,000 if I recall, but the one shown here is overall better carved and the material is yellow jade, which adds to the value.
Here is the jade bixie at Christie's I had in mind for comparison, dated to the six dynasties, estimated at hk$300,000 - 500,000 and actually better carved than I remembered. https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-white-jade-bixie-six-dynasties-6077126-details.aspx?from=salesummery&intObjectID=6077126
At the same time the same seller also had this very nice inlaid bronze scroll--weight which sold for just a thousand. The problem with archaic bronze is that copies are being made that can fool even experienced dealers and collectors whereas specialists will be able to tell them apart by close examination. Here was a situation where several fine archaic bronze pieces were on offer, some of which sold in the thousands but where aspects of them made be believe they were copies and others that sold in the hundreds to me looked like they were likely authentic. But again - with the lack of provenance the major auctions will probably not be interested, even though they are fully legally exported/imported.
This scroll weight was one of the pieces I thought was likely authentic but not 100% certain and decided to leave it. I got one rare Zhou bronze piece from the same seller for a bargain that also has several aspects that make me believe it's likely authentic but there is a chance that it's a sophisticated fake. It should be ready for pick-up today or tomorrow.
I finally managed to get a couple of pictures out of my phone. This very nice Qing yellow jade rhyton was sold a while ago by the same seller who had the scroll weight and the bixie. Unfortunately I forgot about the sale and therefore didn't see what it sold for. The russet skin color of the the pebble material was cleverly used on the reverse side of the rhyton.
And this very fine Qing dynasty white jade water buffalo I was actually bidding on but unfortunately I didn't get it. I hadn't seen that it compares in quality with a celadon jade example estimated at hk$2,000,000 - 3,000,000 at one of the majors. Otherwise I would probably would have gone higher than I did. This one was sold by the same seller who had the white jade double dragon seal I posted earlier on this forum.
I don't believe these two jade pieces are fakes UNLESS they would appear different when handled than on the pictures. They are both very finely carved in top-grade valuable pebble material.
So the Jiajing wucai I showed in this thread was a modern fake as stated by Springmeier and Stuart? No, it wasn't! It was sold at Sotheby's in november 2020. Sadly the pictures in this thread has meanwhile been deleted but fortunately I still have them on my computer so I can re-post them. It is by the way not the first time authentic items has been declared fake by the experts on this fantastic forum. And it probably want be the last time either...
http://www.alaintruong.com/archives/2020/12/18/38713577.html
Just checked - the Jiajing wucai was sold for $2000 and then comes additional shipping fees, etc. Resold at sotheby's for hk$56,700 and then with additional premiums, etc. the profit would have been modest. But it's a nice piece...
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