So much so that today we need to employ such exhaustive methods to comprehend even a portion of the truth. At the end of September 1982, Gu Jingzhou, together with his students Gao Haigeng and Pan Chiping, appraised the Yixing pottery collection stored at the Palace Museum in Beijing. They discovered two "Mingyuan" marked "Phoenix Spout Dragon Handle Teapots" in the collection, which were two of the three pieces he had replicated during the Republican era[1]. The Nanjing Museum houses a duan clay "Bamboo Shoot-Shaped Water Vessel." This water vessel is highly realistic, lifelike and vivid, bearing the seal "Chen Mingyuan." It was donated by He Tianlin from Shanghai in 1958. According to the donor, the provenance of this vessel traces back to his father, who obtained it from General Ji Hongchang. Mr. Huang Jianliang from Taiwan wrote: "Interestingly, in recent years there have been successive rumors that this work actually came from the hand of Master Gu during Shanghai's antique reproduction trend of that era."[2] Professor Gao Yingzi also wrote: "...The 'Dragon Handle Phoenix Spout Teapot' and 'Bamboo Shoot-Shaped Water Vessel' bearing Chen Mingyuan's mark were replicated to an extremely high standard. Some later found their way into institutions such as the Palace Museum and Nanjing Museum, and it was not until he conducted appraisals for the museums decades later that he was reunited with his own works."[3] Regarding the "enemy" --- [1] Xu Xiutang, ed., *Jingzhou Pottery Art Lineage Record: Collection of Works from the Memorial Exhibition for the Centennial Birth of Yixing Purple Clay Master Gu Jingzhou* (Shanghai: Shanghai Classics Publishing House, December 2004), p. 57. [2] Huang Jianliang, "New Colors in the Purple Teapot Flower Chain," *Purple Jade Golden Sand (Tea and Pottery Culture)*, Issue 33 (1996), p. 56. [3] Gao Yingzi, *Chinese Master of Arts and Crafts Gu Jingzhou* (Nanjing: Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, 2010), p. 20.