As one writer observes: "Although it is now evident that artefacts are as easily altered as chronicles, public faith in their veracity endures: a tangible relic seems ipso facto real."
At a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks flustered by the copper coils he's trying to assemble and the arrival of two visitors.
To twentieth-century eyes, Chinese pottery may appear merely decorative, yet to the Chinese, the form of each object and its adornment had meaning and significance.