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Thanks Peter!
Thanks Peter, can’t tell how much I enjoy your videos ❤❤❤
Many thanks Peter… always enjoyable and informative!
Always fun.
imari bowl has hairlines…
Personally I do not own that many books, a few on republic period porcelain, 100 seems excessive Peter, maybe a dozen or two is enough. I created my own books from the internet though, ebay sales for 15 odd years, auction data bases, all sorts of websites, all the information is there you just have to sort it. The celadon vase at the end too Peter is clearly not genuine, the enamels are off, the foot is off and it even looks like it has been deliberately scuffed up and dirtied.
Yet another fascinating video. I look forward to Friday all the more because of the beautiful and interesting things you share with us. Thanks so much. Have a great weekend. Happy, happy birthday to your wife.
I would like to add that for shipping it is best to contact the auction house directly. Most of the time the shipping is cheaper
Always interesting
Peter, what would be interesting to many I think would be a post describing staple repairs over time. At a time long in the past it was a trade practiiced by both specialist and itinerant workers in Europe and China. Sort of an evelution of the skill.
Quiet time on the auctions front? What about some history background about great Chinese céramistes and artists, lives of craftsmen, etc. Watching you from Montréal. So interesting. Many thanks for your contributions.
Hey Peter l just wanted the thank you for the identification videos.
I'm not a wealthy collector. I just like collecting information and the occasional bargin you can find searching thrift stores and the like.
Last week I found an 18th century sugar bowl minus it's lid. Not a spectacular piece, but worth far more than the 2 dollars I spent on it. The payoff for me was not the value of the piece but the value of recognizing what l was looking at when I picked it up.
Dear Peter,
I look forward to your Friday videos with alacrity, and find them quite informative. However, as a life-long collector of fine Asian, Continental and American antiques and art, I would find it more engaging if you concentrated on rarer and more unique pieces beyond the more garden-variety items that you tend to focus on.
Be well, stay safe and keep cool!
Yours,
Matt Siegel
Thank you.
You seem to have career on Piers Morgan’s channel. Making your pathetic comments on every single video 😂
My dear Mr. Combs,
I contacted the auctioneer about the Hamada and there was a bit of a problem. As you know Hamada did not use a chop mark, nor any form of signature (except very early on, and then sporadically). The consigner had no paperwork, not even from the family, nor did they have a date, without these items is hard to be definite as to what you are buying. Later work by Hamada was only decorated by Hamada, the throwing and glazing being done by apprentices. I think this wonderful bowl was thrown by Hamada at an earlier time, but it is very difficult to say for certain.
I worked for Toshiko Takaezu for about a year back in the late eighties (doing work in bronze, not ceramics) and I know that a good part of her work was done by apprentices, this does not make the work fake, but it does change the nature of the piece.
I own two pieces by Tosh, one bowl was probably just glazed by her, another closed form I believe was thrown by her. Both are quite lovely.
I Just wanted to point out why I believe the Hamada did not go for more.
Be well.
John Boyce
Hello Mr. Combs, can you maybe make a video about asian jewelry? In particular chinese and tibetan pieces, the various beads such as dzi beads, coral, carnelian etc. Probably this isnt your focus but if you have something to say about it, id love to hear it 🙂 Great videos as always!