/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19333808
a lot of tiny things usually, clay texture and coarseness, style of the stamps, general shape and how it compares to other shapes of the period. cheap garbage can have one or two characteristics, but it never has everything.

it's also hard to artificially age something without it being obvious (like with shoe polish or w/e) so a lot of the 'better' fakes look really new in practice.

also, older stuff usually has shittier construction and more obvious signs of hand-make in practice.

here's some vintage nixing i picked up. i think japanese and nixing stuff has the best value proposition when it comes to buying off auction sites nowadays, there's a lot that's going for super cheap atm and it's less of a minefield compared to yixing.

i spotted an NIB vintage nixing the other day that went for $22 shipped