A pot site

[jk_lewis]

For those interested in Japanese pots, old and new, you may find this site interesting:

http://japanesebonsaipots.net/

It's a blog format so, like most, it's a bit difficult to find what you need, but blogs are trendy . . .

And there's the old standby for pot ID:

http://www.bonsaipotplaza.com/

 

[rockm]

Interesting blog. I read down a bit. There's some fascinating info on signature and chop forgery. I imagine with some of these pots that can go for tens of thousands (or more) forgeries are a problem...Where there's art, there are forgers...

 

[GastroGnome]

Thanks for the feedback, Mark, JKL, nice to know Serious enthusiasts are reading and enjoying. It's been a long time since I wrote, so I know my commentary and pictures are sub par, but I'm working on it daily! More than 150 posts in the outline stage now, and my continuously updated, comprehensive Chop and Signature page should be up by January 7, with the full force of my Chop database completely uploaded by March. 5 or 6 times as many as the plaza page, without it's severe inaccuracies!
There will always be forgeries if the price is high enough! I've seen a great many...but far less than many people think. A great deal of western so-called forgeries are really nothing more Than poor examples and bad days had by the potter, early work(especially true with painters, whose brush work improves with age), and a misplaced reliance on the chop or signature, without being fully aware of all the details of a potters style and work. I remember not so long ago when another blogger misidentified a Kouzan pot as a forgery. It had a smudged chop but was otherwise impeccable as to body style, clay, glaze color, foot style, and atmosphere. Turned out the pot came from the Vice pres of Nippon Bonsai Pieces Association(the pot and bonsai national treasure registry) and had provenance to before the time of forgeries...a really bad call made based on just the chop, a common mistake of ignorance made not just here in the west by "Experts" but also in Japan, see here(one of my favorite blogs, this guy has taste!)
http://ssbin.blog.shinobi.jp/Entry/661/
Forgeries are almost always easy to spot if you lose the stars in your eyes for that surprisingly low price tag, and keep an eye out for details. I hear from so many enthusiasts who're afraid of Tofukuji's and Kouzans and Antique Chinese Pots because there are forgeries and patina can be faked. I look at literally hundreds of pots for sale daily and very few are either forgeries or possible forgeries, 10-15 years ago, when the market was high, they were everywhere, as I understand it!
Ryan
http://japanesebonsaipots.net/

 

[GastroGnome]

Thanks for the feedback, Mark, JKL, nice to know Serious enthusiasts are reading and enjoying. It's been a long time since I wrote, so I know my commentary and pictures are sub par, but I'm working on it daily! More than 150 posts in the outline stage now, and my continuously updated, comprehensive Chop and Signature page should be up by January 7, with the full force of my Chop database completely uploaded by March. 5 or 6 times as many as the plaza page, without it's severe inaccuracies!
There will always be forgeries if the price is high enough! I've seen a great many...but far less than many people think. A great deal of western so-called forgeries are really nothing more Than poor examples and bad days had by the potter, early work(especially true with painters, whose brush work improves with age), and a misplaced reliance on the chop or signature, without being fully aware of all the details of a potters style and work. I remember not so long ago when another blogger misidentified a Kouzan pot as a forgery. It had a smudged chop but was otherwise impeccable as to body style, clay, glaze color, foot style, and atmosphere. Turned out the pot came from the Vice pres of Nippon Bonsai Pieces Association(the pot and bonsai national treasure registry) and had provenance to before the time of forgeries...a really bad call made based on just the chop, a common mistake of ignorance made not just here in the west by "Experts" but also in Japan, see here(one of my favorite blogs, this guy has taste!)
http://ssbin.blog.shinobi.jp/Entry/661/
Forgeries are almost always easy to spot if you lose the stars in your eyes for that surprisingly low price tag, and keep an eye out for details. I hear from so many enthusiasts who're afraid of Tofukuji's and Kouzans and Antique Chinese Pots because there are forgeries and patina can be faked. I look at literally hundreds of pots for sale daily and very few are either forgeries or possible forgeries, 10-15 years ago, when the market was high, they were everywhere, as I understand it!
Ryan
http://japanesebonsaipots.net/