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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mmarco102, post: 9771915, member: 8289&quot;]I think it’s unquestionably decorative, not collectible and that is how it will remain for a hundred year. I won’t be around to judge its collectibility at that latter time. I kind of knew that after just a few helpful post &amp; messages yesterday.</p><p><br /></p><p>dubious sellers along with ignorant ones will always be questionable. But UW never made such a claim.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>‘and yet it seems ok for them… 1824?</p><p>“They started making porcelain reproductions of the Ming plates<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:15-17" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:15-17" rel="nofollow">[17]</a> around the end of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" rel="nofollow">World War II</a>, as the amount of porcelain available to import declined.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:7-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:7-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:2-14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:2-14" rel="nofollow">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:3-15" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:3-15" rel="nofollow">[15]</a> The move made Mottahedeh &amp; Co. one of the earliest companies to make such reproductions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:18-19" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:18-19" rel="nofollow">[18]</a> As a pioneer in the field at a time when many museums frowned upon reproductions, Mottahedeh advocated heavily in favor of them, saying &quot;If we didn&#039;t reprint books, look at how much we&#039;d lose in history ... The same is true of porcelain. If we didn&#039;t remake them, we&#039;d lose all those designs.&quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:19-20" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Mottahedeh#cite_note-:19-20" rel="nofollow">[19]</a> She also described the reproductions as &quot;democratizing&quot; porcelain.”</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]481922[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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