It would be difficult to say how long this feeling for Chinese art will last, The most depressing fea: ture of collecting is the enormous number of fakes, and the almost complete helplessness of the collector in the circumstances. Although Sir Herbert Jackson has, with the help of a colleague, begun chemical experiments to find a sure way of dis tinguishing the old stuff from the results of his work are sti from being generally known or applied. The abundance of fakes often causes a diminishing of interest among the collectors and conse= quently a slump on the market.
There is one dream, that both the student and lover of Chinese art, cherish together. It is that of scientifically conducted excavations that would give a clue and perhaps a key to the problem of development lof styles in Chinese art. They would lingly barter all the noisy and prosperous trade ridden China for a genuine dead one. short they long to sce a repetition fof what has been done in Italy and Greece for centuries and what is now. 1 taking place in and around: Rome
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