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> Which the metal came from China but the origin of the artwork seems unclear.

Even wildly famous western artwork often has unknown provenance, or only vaguely-known provenance. Furthermore art historians often see identifying details, stylizations, flaws, etc that laymen (like myself) don't. I'm happy to trust the reporting here as much as I'd trust anything from a field I don't know much about (what alternative is there, really?).

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I'm happy that you're happy trusting this as much as you'd trust anything else. It doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement.

> It doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement.

You don't find many of these when looking at the past, and if you do, this should be a giant, glaring red flag. I may not be a trained art historian but I do know my historiography very well.

In fact neither one of us has a strong belief about where the piece was made.

I mean, I think pretty strongly it was made in china now. I certainly have more certainty about that than, say, the origins of the shroud of turin.

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