Ming bowl? or just recently made?

[cordi]

hi! new here and i suppose its here where you post questions about items you don't know about

a neighbor is selling this piece for 2000$ not directly to me

I thought I can haggle to much lower price since I knew him but first do you have any idea about this piece, its age and price maybe?

here are the pics. if in case I want to put my money on these kinds of items then resell them.

I just graduated from high school and i am looking for something to earn for college.

the cash is my long months of labor

Thank you so much.

 

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[capt-zero]

Welcome to T-net and the collecting obsession. I can't help you with the ID, but will give you a bit of advice concerning Chinese antiques. China, while long home to many of the worlds finest craftsman, has a long and illustrious history of faking antiques, many of which fool even long time experts. Not to disparage your friend, who's family may have legitmately come into this bowl hundreds of years ago. I, personally, would not purchase a reputed Chinese antique without authentication heaped upon authentication. There was a story recently, of a major museum in England that had to remove a number of Ming porcelain vases from their collection when they found that they were in actuality forgeries made in the twenties. A friend who makes her living restoring antique paintings for our local fine arts museum, told me to never shell out any real money for Chinese porcelain, unless I was just willing to pay that price because I liked the piece, not because of any reputed antique value. By all means buy whatever you feel you must, but with any antique or collectable, it is better to pass up several good deals than to get stuck with a bad one. You can't spend too many hours in research and research ALWAYS pays the best dividends.

 

[cordi]

wow really a museum had been fooled?

Sir!

Thank you! well said. With the advice I think I may pass up on this

I think i'll go with my earlier plan.

to buy a very good metal detector, had good memory searching for "tin cans" when my grandpa was still kicking. the detector was just crap but we found coins here and there

I'll soon ask that in the another thread, let's see if someone knew about this.

I am still very curious of the price for this very simple item

again thanks