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The Bowl in the First Case
Colette stopped Farid in the gallery doorway because she wanted him to look at the bowl before he signed the veto. His note said a damaged object in the first case would make the museum look unable to afford whole things.
The bowl sat under a small lamp. Pale clay, a dark lip, and a crack from rim to foot, mended with a line of gold-colored lacquer. Colette had put it there because the mend was the point. Farid kept his coat on.
"It is broken," he said.
"It was broken. Someone mended it and went on using it."
"Then put it with the study pieces. People who come in from the street want something intact. I am not being cruel. I am telling you how it reads from the door."
She had an answer ready, the one she gave students: