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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 246286, member: 2844&quot;]There are factories in China where they make &#039;antique&#039; porcelain, etc. They copy the items from pictures of antiques and don&#039;t know what the real piece actually looks like. If they would copy the ghendi in the picture Komo posted, they could very well copy it with a closed spout.</p><p>The same could happen in Thailand, which is well-known as a &#039;fakers paradise&#039;:</p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/11/travel/shopper-s-world-in-thailand-faking-art-is-an-art-in-itself.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/11/travel/shopper-s-world-in-thailand-faking-art-is-an-art-in-itself.html?pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/11/travel/shopper-s-world-in-thailand-faking-art-is-an-art-in-itself.html?pagewanted=all</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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