Posted By: Fred
Posted Date: Sep 13, 2007 (07:03 AM)
Dear friends,
I’m totally novice in collecting Chinese old ceramics and pottery. My goal is to start a small collection of mingqi from all dynasties.
Easy to say, hard to do. I really can’t afford to buy it in an auction house or to a specialized expert dealer. It’s, most of the time, really expensive. I really don’t say it don’t worth the price, of course, but I suppose it’s possible to find mingqui – in poor condition for example – at a lower price.
I think that’s a good way to start a collection.
So I searched a lot on Ebay to find an affordable dealer which can be –more or less - trusted. I eliminated all dealers from China or any dealers which sell “too nice things at a too low price to be truth”.
I found a dealer (pseudo “Jimmy77888”), based in US, specialized in broken Chinese antiques at a very low price. His feedback is very positive. All the items he is selling looks old, but not too nice to be real. I contacted several people who bought him items, and all were confident about authenticity of what they received.
I made a first small buy (three liao dynasty tsa-tsa ) and I was very happy about it. Of course, I really don’t know it’s old or not. But I checked it within an archaeological dealer who had a few tsa-tsa, and I can say the color, technic used and small defaults are the same. But good copy or real vintage, who can say ?
Now I ordered on ebay a few mingqi from this dealer. I let you appreciate them with theses photos. The price is very cheap, only 30 $ each and are supposed to be from tang dynasty. I don’t know what to think about it … When I look what sells other expert dealers it’s much more expensive (around 250 $ each) but much nicer also and not broken !
So, what do you think about it ? Do you think it’s a trusted seller ? Or does he sells fakes ?
