Quickly Identify & Date Chinese Ceramics

Time-saving references for dating antique ceramics

• Time-saving overview about the most important pre-Yuan kiln kilns and their wares

• Get to know individual details that are often conclusive regarding antique age

• Save time by identifying specific features deciding age of antiques quickly and in short-form

• Information always at hand when you need it

• Rapidly access essential information using the search function or content index to find hints that assist with dating.

Tired of searching through scores of books or websites for those tiny pieces of information which tell you whether the ceramic item at hand is authentic, or from what period it might be?
If you have already some years of experience with collecting/studying Chinese ceramics you sure know that many information sources do not provide some essential points showing the details or differences between ceramics of different sources and periods. They may often seem minor, IF they are present, but do not explain relevant traits of differences relative to products of different periods.

Save time:
Doing a quick search in this ebook enables you to quickly find actual bits of information needed for dating ceramics. Every collector has knowledge gaps to fill, even professionals, but no time to read through scores of books or websites fo find certain information for dating.

Small details decide age or period:
Small details are often decisive and allow time-saving conclusion as to authenticity, origin and period of ceramic items. Without these it may require many years of study and sifting through lots of insufficient or erroneous information.

Easy overview and details:
This book may simplify your dating or authentication needs -- for collectors who wish to do dating of Chinese ceramics at an intermediate level.

Many individual traits and tiny details:
Decisive details for deciding age and/or authenticity of Chinese ceramics are often overlooked, or not easily found online or in relevant books.
Here they are given in a condensed form in a single reference book that not only gives you hints that advanced appraisers and collectors use, given in short form, without the need to plough through dozens of books to find them yourself.

What this book can do for you!

Benefits and Features:

• Quick overview over the most important pre-Yuan kilns and their wares
  - This will help you recognizing such early items.
  - You will recognize more items of more ancient ceramics.
  - You appear more knowledgeable to others.

• Learn about individual details that are often conclusive for antique age
  - These can speed up identification and dating.
  - It may often help even with ceramic types not in your specialty range.
  - Collectors and dealers appreciate your ablity more.

• Save time by identifying features of ceramics quickly when evaluating age.
  - Period-related details that are more decisive than others are quickly found.
  - Less time-wasting search through multiple books or internet.
  - You appear more experienced to other collectors or buyers/sellers.
  - The age or period may be decided, even with some less known decorations or styles.

• Information always at hand when needed
  - Quickly check details and features needed.
  - Easier access than going through numerous books and websites.
  - Increased speed makes you appear more experienced to others.
  - Dating an item is requiring less time and increases your appraising power.

• Rapid access to key information for dating ceramics
  - Information derived direcctly from actual identification and appraisal sessions.
  - Details on ceramics that are often not available in books.
  - You spend less time researching.
  - You can decide period of many items which are less known to you.
  - You impress others by the details you know.
  - You don’t have so much for each different type of item.

• Costs only $68 -- (discount price $48 for first two months)
  - Ebook cost easily recovered by preventing a single fake
  - Easily discover erroneous dating or later copies

• PDF format file in B5 size
  - Can be viewed on different operating systems, Pcs, tablets, etc.

• Free advice via Forum
  - Request help regarding details you are in doubt about.

Appraising the age of Chinese ceramics

This reference book is essential for collectors to whom the easy availability of informations for dating of Chinese ceramics is important. The content fills some knowledge gaps with details easily available without the need to read up books and internet for the essential information. No need for knowing the Chinese languange etiher. It enables more reliable and rapid dating.

For example: Have you ever wondered what experienced collectors or professionals look for to identify whether a bowl at hand is from the Song dynasty or the Yuan dynasty, if they have the same type of clay, glaze and shape, but no other decoration?
This book provides some a simple answer to this question to understand this for good!

To be clear, such uncertainty is not something specific to one’s educational background or study of the subject, even those working in museums and auction houses are never perfect when it comes to Chinese ceramics. Believe it or not, even experts working for the world’s top few auction houses are not always capable to decide if an item is authentic or not. The same is valid for museum researchers.

My journey to Chinese ceramics:
Initially, I spent years reviewing every day dozens of items presented by collectors for evaluation on the Chinese web. Although I slowly got to understand what to look for, there always remained these questions that nobody answered.
Then, I had the opportunity to attend authentication sessions every week, which resulted that instead of the crawl at which I learned by myself my knowledge increased in leaps and bounds.
The man who did the authentications (we called him the “consultant”) had close to 40 years of collecting experience, but still did not know it all. But, at those sessions he provided many hints and pieces of information, which seemed to help filling in some of the gaps and questions that my own collecting experience and study of the subject did not resolve. Often simple pieces of information answered questions I had trying to authenticate items myself in the process of accumulating a collection.

“How to Quickly Identify Chinese Ceramics”

“Time-saving Access to Information Regarding Certain Details of Chinese Ceramics
Decisive for Rapid Dating of Antique Porcelain
Making Your Appraising More Efficient”

What you find in this book are large numbers of simple knowledge bits not commonly found in books and the internet, but which often are important for dating decisions.
These pieces of information can usually only be acquired over long years of study or if you are lucky, taught by a mentor who already knows these.

The content of this book is limited to Chinese porcelain of major mainstream kilns, to be sure. There are lots of minor kilns, but there is not one specialist who knows it all, not even in China. Often “experts” or “specialists” of auction houses have no clue about items other than those of types or periods they see often.
Much of what is known pertains to antique ceramics from the early 20^th century back to the Sui/Tang dynasty... a period of about 1500 years of ceramics, and at the very least a few "hundred" kilns, more likely a few thousand, if the many peripheral kilns are included. How could one person know it all about their products?!

What you get in this book is some basic information that shall fill in some of the gaps of knowledge that you may have from your own research. Precondition to using this is that you already are capable to identify real age signs and if possible have experience identifying or dating Chinese ceramics.
You will find an overview of some major kilns, which the ceramics of which you may likely encounter during your own study of the subject. We need to be aware that there exists little information on wares from 'before' the Song dynasty. That means wares made during the Tang dynasty and earlier. That is simply because there is virtually no information in writing from those eras. Most knowledge relating to those earlier periods is limited and originates from archaeology. Song dynasty and later eras have also more related information in the form of contemporary literature mentioning ceramics, and more items are extant today.

The information in this book will definitely help you explain some things that everyone with sufficient basic knowledge of antiques already has. This assumes you already have a certain minimum level of experience.

Even if you are already in a professional position like in a museum or auction house, or dealership, there is always so much to learn.
Do you collect? Are you dealing in antiques? If you do then you should preferably be able to identify and authenticate items yourself. Saying it a bit bluntly, when it comes to Chinese ceramics it is necessary to contend with scores of fakes, but relying on what museum researchers or auction house experts say is not always reliable. Dare I say it...?

Correct identification of antiques is never guaranteed; even the world's top auction houses offer sometimes erroneously attributed items at auction. Longtime collectors may have spent more time researching or studying specific types of ancient items than their “experts”. Auction houses are primarily selling outfits; for them appraising and identification is necessary to reduce problems, but they cannot spend much time learning about specific items. Their primary purpose still is “selling”.
You can find examples of “sold” but wrongly attributed items from major international auction houses online, which sometimes even people without specific knowledge may identify as bing incorrect. -- The real reason is not that they need to be ‘right’ in the first place, the items need to sell, that is more important to them .

Thus buying via auction is often not a guarantee for authenticity of antiques either. Auction houses have legal clauses which you have to agree to, protecting themselves from errors like wrong attribution, although major auction houses strive to have the items they sell to be authentic. Guess why they often refuse items! It is doubtless not always because the item in question has a problem, the problem may simply be that their experts are not sure in specific cases. This may more often than not the case with Chinese ceramics, due to the rampant faking in this field. The best solution is always to have the relevant expertise yourself.

Identification criteria mentioned herein assume you have already some prior knowledge regarding the more basic authentication features of Chinese ceramics. What is provided here are pieces of information applicable for intermediate level identification.

Paying attention to details and analyzing individual features or the absence of such on an item viewed is THE method for authentication.
The only other method that may compare to this, if applied correctly, is scientific material analysis using modern equipment and technology. But as of now it is not widely available yet to collectors, and it is expensive!

Again, what this ebook does for you:

• It gives you an overview of the very early mainstream ceramic kilns producing before the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368~1911) – namely from the Tang to the Yuan dynasties, in case you need to identify any such wares.

• For time-saving dating/verification many hints of individual small details are given, that make dating simpler and more reliable.

• Instead of intuition and decades of experience you can learn about numerous traits and features of ceramics to assist with dating.
  
  

Have you tried identifying or dating ceramics outside your specialty range or periods?
“Of course you have!!!”
So what was the result? Tried to find additional information online or in books to make sure?
-- To be sure, we all do!-- it can be time-consuming...This book can make it easier by producing results of less known minor details that may be decisive in dating or authentication!
With this book you may find the short tips and hints that you are missing. The information pieces that assist in elevating your understanding of this vast subject. SAVE TIME and Effort by consulting this book on any details to quickly conclude your authenticity or dating research.

• Tired of leafing through scores of books – or internet sites – to get the essential information for dating or verification of Chinese ceramics?
  “Click and search” this ebook to RAPIDLY find results

• Important pieces of information gleaned by attending hundreds of actual appraisal sessions, and more information from Chinese (language) resources

• Essential tidbits for appraising often not mentioned in books or online - tint bits are often decisive
  

• Small details not mentioned in the usual book & internet resources – use them to you advantage

For Example:
How do you discern early and late Qing items if their decorations look similar? Something every novice collector is puzzled about. Instead of looking at decorations, get to know the differences of the item's base, shape, etc., then you can skip the problem and decide based on more specific features. Decorations can and are often copied or repeated in items of later periods!
You will find that minor pieces of information make your identification capability increase faster. Tiny, apparently minor details are often not mentioned in books. I learned them while attending actual, weekly appraisal sessions. The snail's pace at which we learn when learning on our own from books and internet may become leaps!


“At Last, an Ebook Giving You Specific Details in order
to Enable You to Identify Ceramics Age Quickly”

        A Simple Way for Chinese Ceramics Authentication – Saving You Valuable Time
  This Ebook Hints to Specific Details that Enable You to Estimate  Ceramics Age Quickly

 Information for 'intermediate' level  collectors that normally takes years
of study and practice to acquire!