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You may have arrived at this page because you wish to
have an item evaluated.
For a free
evaluation, please post to the public forum .
Requesting Item
Opinion
We can provide an
informal opinion in private to those not wishing to post
items in the public forum.
- Opinion on age/
authenticity
- Pre-purchase opinion
(for online or offline items)
Good if you need a second opinion before bidding or
purchasing on Ebay or elsewhere.
If you wish to consult us in private regarding an item,
please contribute a small amount of USD 12.30 per item
to the running of this site.
An informal opinion will provide you with a view on whether
your item could be authentic and how old it may be. If there
is a mark I/we will let you know about the mark content, if
it is readable (although with most Chinese porcelain marks
it cannot be used for dating : see “Marks” section).
If I/we cannot tell
for sure what you have, based on your pictures, or if I/we
are not confident enough to tell what it is, without a
hands-on inspection, this will be stated in our answer.
- Please note that we
do not provide valuations proper.
On request we will provide an opinion as to whether the
expense of a formal appraisal or valuation might be
worthwhile for your item.
- Please be aware that I/we can only provide our view on
authenticity and the age of antique items that are 100
yrs old or older (vintage and newer items are outside
this scope).
If you submit a vintage, new or fake item for evaluation, we
will let you know what we think it is, but may not be able
to help as to who made that specific item, or from when it
exactly is.
Disclaimer:
We do not pretend to
know all there is about Chinese antique porcelain. The
whole range of Chinese porcelain spans more than two
thousand years.
Our main field of interest is Ming and Qing dynasty
porcelain, with Yuan and Song dynasty porcelain we have
limited knowledge of certain main stream kiln items
only.
(There were hundreds of kilns in operation at any one time.)
We may be unable to help
with Tang dynasty (A.D. 618~907) and earlier items.
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After payment you will be
taken to the uploading page, where you can upload up to
eight (8) images.
Please try to provide images of approx. 800-950 pixel width,
respectively within 100-300 kByte each.
Alternatively you can post the pictures to an external image
site like Photobucket, Flickr, etc., and just enter the
individual links in the message body, instead of uploading
images.
An answer to an evaluation request will be sent in approx.
3~4 working days, sometimes earlier.
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