> 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.