Qing Dynasty Silver Meets the Ancient Art of Penjing 清代銀器遇上古代盆景藝術
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on June 6, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Bonsai [kanji 盆栽] has become known across the Western world as well as much of Asia, yet as an English noun it has only existed as a dictionary word since 1950 describing, in the main, the rather enigmatic world of individual miniature trees that have been painstakingly clipped and trained; it has morphed into being […]
假消息 Fake news? Western auction houses and e-commerce sites seem worryingly oblivious to the increasing presence of Chinese “copies”
Posted by Adrien von Ferscht on October 20, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Few categories of antiques are immune to fakery; copies that manifest in varying degrees of passable authenticity, or at least at first glance. Fakes, replicas, copies – whatever one wishes to call them, have existed almost as long as the real thing and it’s been so for centuries and Chinese artisans have been considered the […]