Kanevsky notes that in the 18th century, craftsmen would pierce the flowers with the stem, folding the end over and flattening it to form a rivet, because they didn't have good glues.

WSJ: Porcelain Flowers Never Die

"It's a storm, it's going to pass, it always has, and if it doesn't then we have a whole different set of issues for all of us together, " Rivet said.

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