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0082, -3- (who gave as the money to buy 1t) about it — I wished to tell you first of all. But I am perfectky certain that they both will be eaually con- vinced as I am that you were quite unaware of any flaw in the authenticity of this piece, which had a pkce of honour in your exhibition in London and which has been raproduced already in famous albums like Umehara”s, But now, since the unfortunate...
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0082, -3- (who gave as the money to buy 1t) about it — I wished to tell you first of all. But I am perfectky certain that they both will be eaually con- vinced as I am that you were quite unaware of any flaw in the authenticity of this piece, which had a pkce of honour in your exhibition in London and which has been raproduced already in famous albums like Umehara”s, But now, since the unfortunate shorteoigs of the specimen hawibeen revealed, due more or less to a chance - everybody had, after all, handled it:the Crown Prince, Feliström, Andersson, dr.Visser, Kimmel, the English collectors, and discovered nothing suspect — I feel that I must tell you of it before it comes to the knowledge of anybody else. The tube shaped finial which we also bought from you passed through the same test, the distilled water, and stood the test very well. I might tell vou that Andersson has gone for a year"s stöyrin the Far East, On the one hand he has to stay in Nanking some months for publishing some monographs regarding his own prebistoric finds, on the other hand he wishes to see the various collactiona and excavation fields. I envy him badly; it will take two years mora bofore I can make myself free for an expedition to China. But in the autumn of 1938 I hope to satl too. It is many years now since I last aaw China, and I am sager to resisit it. During this year I am 3 days of evary weak in Stockholm, being in iGharge of Anderason”s museum during hia absence, and 3 days in Gothenburg doing my ordinary lecturing there. Among the inlaid bronzes which you kindly lent us there was a pair of finials in the shape of dragon heads, Those thterest me considerably. What 13 tha price of one of them? I hope to come to Paris in March, and look forward to the pleasure of seeing you then, With kindest regards Yours very sincerely TSG
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006 together in an erroneous position (there are even modern, shining brass nails clearly visible?). In this connectbon I must report to you a very unfortunate matter. You remember the beautiful inlai...
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006 together in an erroneous position (there are even modern, shining brass nails clearly visible?). In this connectbon I must report to you a very unfortunate matter. You remember the beautiful inlaid dragon from Chin-tsun which we bought from you in London. Ite great charm -— which motivated its high price- sas tnat 15 vas absolutely complete, and the lustre of its patina was helightened by the contrast effect of some large splashes of s rich green inerastation. Now, thera were also a few spots of bronze pest on it, and when Andersson on Oct. 3rd left for China , he asked me to see to it that the dragon was cleaned so as to prevent the pest to soread furthe . Our conservator therefore first placed it in distilled water. Already over night the thick green pplashes of incrustation dissolved and came off — it wac alrvwhoat flour glue with artificial green colour! After another nicht the isst front leg fell off; it had been fastened by the said slue, and 1t turned our to be a modern piece of brass, neadly shaped sö as to fit the old dragon, and tre glaring surface of the brass had first been painted with red cohour and then covered in snots with the green wheat flour paste. I enolose here a photo of tha poor old dragon, which has been for a year, the pride of our Hual style cupboard: it is now only a badly incomplete fragment. I am quite aure no private collactor would ever dream of buying such a pie for a museum 1t has still a certain value (it is of considerable soientific intorest), but öfscoursae its money value has been fatally decreased, I hasten to assure you, dear Mr, Loo, that I am most absolutely and perfectly convinced that neither you nor Mr. Yeh had the faintest idea of the fact that the dragon was made up. It is, of course, entirely impossible for you to go into a detailed analysis and a technical test of every one of the thousands of objects which pass through your firm. I have, so far, spoken neither with the Crown Prince nor with Hellström
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0081a Stockholm the 9th of Nov. 1936. MV. 0.7. Loo, "8, Rue de Courcelles, Paris Dear Nr. Loo, First I wish to offer you my best thanks for your kind help last summer in tracing objects said to belong...
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0081a Stockholm the 9th of Nov. 1936. MV. 0.7. Loo, "8, Rue de Courcelles, Paris Dear Nr. Loo, First I wish to offer you my best thanks for your kind help last summer in tracing objects said to belong to the Chin-tsun find, I must confess that I am growing mors and more sceptical as regards this "find". I have tha imrreesion that a number of dealers in China, after the first sand authentic Chin-tsun find which made this name fashionable, made a Chin-tsun boom, bringing together all that was in the market in China of gold and silver inlaid things sufficiently similar in style and letting 1t all pass under the name of Chin-tsun. So much is certain that many objects were not found in the form they have been brought upon the market but have been seriously tampered with, altered, "improved", by some professional technical worker. There is, for instance, that "yeaving apraratus" which you so kindly lent us for study. I examined it very carefully, and 1t would be easy for me to prove that it 18 made up of various parts that really do not belong together. The separate parts are sure 'enough ancient, but they have been very ineptly fastenad
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Mottagen av Loo, C. T. (Ching Tsai).
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Tillverkad 1936-11-09 i Stockholm av Karlgren, Bernhard.
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