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Acknowledgments & Thanks

My thanks to the following for their invaluable support, help and encouragement:

UK: Lars Tharp; Timo Koopman at Koopman Rare Art Ltd, London; Steven Jordan [Managing Director],
Hawksworth Valuations Ltd, London; Veronica Parry; Gerry & Johan Klapwyck; Daniel Bexfield at Daniel
Bexfield Antiques, London; Michael Backman at Michael Backman Ltd, London; Trevor Downes at www.
925-1000.com; Stephen Stodel at S & J Stodel, London; David Rees at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, UK;
Jeremy Lamond & Rebecca Moss at Halls Fine Art; Michael Moorcroft at Bonhams, London; Gordon McFarlan,
Bonhams, Glasgow; James Clare at Bonhams, London; Ian Glennie at Bonhams, Edinburgh; Roddie Gow OBE
[Chairman] at Asia Scotland Institute

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW: Professor Jane Duckett, Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at
University of Glasgow and to Professor Nick Pearce for creating the framework at University of Glasgow for me
to carry out my research

BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY: Dr Austin Jun Luo [Vice Dean], Professor Huilin Huang [Director] & Dr Ding
Ning at the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture, Beijing Normal University

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, BEIJING: Professor Wang Qi, Professor Zhou Maolin & Professor Fang Cheng Feng at
the Department of History, Institute of Humanities, Tsinghua University, Beijing

BEIJING: Endless thanks to Paul Jun Dong, Managing Director/Co-Founder at Infinity Auctions International,
Beijing & Ever-art, Beijing and members of his team - Jocelyn Qian; Pei Tong; Xingye Li; Sean Zhang; Stephen
Xiu
Thanks also to Thomas & Liping Jones. Respect to Liu Yu Ping. Special thanks to Tan Hao Wei [Harry Tan]

HONG KONG: Danny Cheng; Colin O’Brien; Alice Leung

USA: Special thanks to Eric Bradley, Dallas, Texas, for his constant support; Jeffrey Herman at Jeffrey Herman
Silver Restoration, Rhode Island; Andrew, Allan & Steven Chait at Ralph M Chait Galleries, New York; Karen
Rigdon at Heritage Auctions, Dallas; Will Seippel [Founder & CEO] & Greg Watkins at WorthPoint; Jenny Pitman
& Rebecca Riegelhaupt at Christie’s, New York; Dr Robert Barresi, Massachusetts

FRANCE: David Allan, Paris

SINGAPORE: Ben Chiesa, formerly at Asian Civilisations Museum; Dr Wai Choong Lye

HOLLAND: Peter van Oel

ITALY: Tommaso Teardo at Wannenes, Genoa

SPAIN: David Wang [Da Wei Wang Hua], Madrid

To the collectors, dealers, editors and academics around the world who regularly share their knowledge

Very special thanks to Matt von Ferscht-Fountain