一個造'假'瓷器的公司：Mottahedeh

Mottahedeh公司，專門仿製高檔古瓷器，做工非常考究， 很有檔次，價格也不菲。 模仿清外銷瓷，做的件件精美。你可以打開該公司的網頁，欣賞他們仿造的清外銷瓷！掏到一件鯉魚瓷。
下麵的文章很老，但可略知該公司的背景。

The Porcelain Art Of Mottahedeh Knows No Age

By BARBARA GAMAREKIAN
NYTimes.com
Published: April 06, 1989


Picture from http://www.mottahedeh.com/


掛在洗手間photo by 回家路


胎質細膩，做工精美 photo by 回家路

背麵標記：Adaption of Chinese Export Platter, Chian Lung Dynasty, Cica 1750-60, Dallas Museum of Art.  photo by 回家路

AS guests linger over after-dinner coffee at the White House and diplomats sip cocktai
ls across the street at the newly restored Blair House, they are surrounded by what they suppose to be priceless porcelains: glorious Chinese export bowls holding lilies and freesia; olive dishes emblazoned with the American eagle, serving as ashtrays; a classic Tobacco Leaf epergne, filled with fruits and candy.

The ceramics are indeed beautiful - beautiful fakes. But Mildred Mottahedeh, the energetic, 80-year-old collector of Chinese export porcelains whose company produces these museum-quality reproductions, would cross swords with anyone who chose to employ such a disparaging term. Fake indeed. Good reproductions insure that works of art will be preserved for future generations.

''The originals are just too valuable to use,'' Mrs. Mottahedeh (pronounced MOT-teh-heh-dah) said recently as she guided an interviewer on a tour of the Mottahedeh & Company showroom at 225 Fifth Avenue, between 26th and 27th Streets, in Manhattan. ''They get broken. Light-fingered people make off with them.'' But even the reproductions are picked off as mementos, said Clement Conger, the curator who assembled a vaunted collection of fine furniture, paintings and china for the elegant suite of diplomatic reception rooms at the State Department. ''We used to use two sizes of some nice Chinese export trays, but they would slowly but surely disappear,'' he said. ''Now we just use the big ones because they are too large to slip into the pocket.''
 

Mildred Root Mottahedeh began collecting Japanese prints at the age of 13 after she moved to New York from Rumson, N.J., where she was born. ''And then I met my husband, who was a collector,'' she said. ''And we collected together. We were just two collecting nuts.'' She and her Iranian-born husband, Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, who died in 1978, opened their own importing business. In 1929, they began acquiring Oriental porcelains, ivories, jades and bronzes, amassing one of the world's finest private collections, some 2,000 pieces. In his foreword to ''China for the West,'' a two-volume book published in 1978 by Sotheby Parke Bernet of London about the Mottahedeh collection, Nelson A. Rockefeller - himself a collector of porcelain - declared it to be ''utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field.''

In 1985, some 400 pieces were sold at Sotheby's, but Mrs. Mottahedeh's apartment in Manhattan and her house in Stamford, Conn., are still chockablock with treasures she rotates from storage. ''I have 18 rooms of things I love up in the country and five rooms of things I love in town,'' she said. ''Even my kitchen has antique porcelain on the walls.''

A privately held company, Mrs. Mottahedeh's ceramics concern does not release its sales figures. But it produces about 1,500 different items for more than 3,000 stores, from Tiffany & Company to small gift shops. The company also reproduces pieces in the collections of museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Dallas Art Institute and the Musee des Art Decoratifs in Paris for sale in their shops. ''But we won't do a piece just because it is historic,'' Mrs. Mottahedeh said. ''It has to have character and usability.''

On the tour of the showroom, Mrs. Mottahedeh pointed out some items that met those criteria. ''This is the bowl President Reagan sent to all heads of state,'' she said of a monteith. ''And all that blue and white is the Historic Charleston series. And this was designed by Pierre L'Enfant for George Washington,'' she added, pointing to a dinner service.