From 8Asians Reader Min: “Art Dealers Get Tough as $83 Million Chinese Vase Goes Unpaid. [I guess there are] First World Problems… and then there [are] 1% Problems.”
I work part-time at an Asian art house and this isn’t necessarily a 1% problem. According the the article, the vase was found in a “routine house cleaning.” Speaking from personal experience, you never know who the owner of the item is, especially since it doesn’t seem to have come from a known private collector with provenance– this could be a life-changing sale for the owner. Bainbridges of London may seem like it caters to the 1% but a lot of times, museums and educational institutions are the sellers/buyers of such items; it sounds like a deadbeat Chinese buyer is the problem here.
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jozjozjoz is a taiwanese-american gal who lives and blogs underneath the hollywood sign and who doesn’t clean her fishtank unless the fish starts to do the backstroke. she is also able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but cannot stop from bumping into door handles, cabinet doors, and anything else that protrudes or has a sharp edge. she does not run with scissors for this same reason. she can pet the fur off a dog but don’t ask her to go anywhere near a horse. or a moth. or a roach. her dealings with L.A.’s finest (aka the parking violations department) are legend, as are her giant sneezes.
Other than the two too many joz’s, jozjozjoz is a perfectly normal, relatively sane individual who defies the odds, reaches for the stars, and carries moonbeams home in a jar. She’d rather be a fish… but not in her own dirty fishtank.
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