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For many years now I've been sharing my collection and information on the net. At one point I removed my email link entirely from the site, and only recently added it back since I do enjoy some contact and comments, most of which surprisingly comes from China. In looking at the link popularity to see how many sites either reference, or link to my site, I am happy to see that among those that do, several Universities and Museums are on the list. I've never paid for ranking nor traded links with other sites to increase popularity. Regardless of this, I am pleased to see that my ranking with most of the major search engines in the Chinese Porcelain category usually falls within the top ten of the many sites found. This means the popularity is natural (honestly earned), not bought or traded. I've started getting overloaded again with people looking either to buy a specific piece, or for me to appraise what they have. Lately I've been getting emails that say, for example [Quote] "Tell me about the images attached." This was accompanied with a huge zip file of about 20 or 30 images. I get several of these per month, and I see they are often mailed out to multiple recipients. First off, no single piece is for sale. My collection is a family. I've declined all offers to sell one, or even several of my pieces. I suppose that eventually I would consider selling the entire collection, but that would be hopefully to China, which is where they belong. As to pricing, I'm sure many of the requests I've had are more in the nature of curiosity as the requester may have a similar piece. The Sung dynasty vase alone in my Coming Attractions section is
valued between 30k to 50k, and the Shang dynasty bronze vessel about
the same, if not more. But when it comes to the Ming and Qing pieces,
it's hard to put a price on a single piece. I can only say priceless, how can
you put a price on your family. I've had to remove my email link completely now, it's time to enjoy retirement and family. This site will remain to help collectors. Friends I've made over the years through this site have my contact. Here are two very good sites that will allow you to ask questions and upload images. They are free and user friendly. There are knowledgeable members, as well as moderators, willing to offer free opinions and advice. Here are the links. . . Thank you, JP
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Here's another way of looking at it (for me at
least). I consider my collection more valuable than gold. And I
consider it safer than gold for the following reasons. Gold can be
stolen and easily put back on the market in an untraceable form. It
happens all the time. But a rare piece of Chinese porcelain is not
marketable to the thief, it is recognizable and will eventually find
it's way back to it's original (legal) owner. The trail it leaves
during it's side trip puts all previous 'handlers' at risk. Ounce for
ounce, there is no comparison at all, rare Chinese porcelain is by far
the greater value. I suppose that the ultimate would
be to have gold and Chinese porcelain. 
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