Bronze Statue of China at Auction
According to Du Chaohui revealed that occupy the forefront of the auction turnover rankings, shot all European and American buyers. No one can figure out the date of this bronze sculpture. And that piece come out on top $ 3.33 million square Yi, was actually Europe and buyers through Christie’s pay under the real-time online system to create the system transaction price of the auction. Collection in 35 years career, Andy Ho not only devoted wealth and energy, has formed its unique “4P” (Patination that Pseudomonas hull, Pictogram that the inscriptions, Precision casting is superb, Provenance collection history) Collection philosophy. In China, the bronze collection dates back to the Han Dynasty, the official publication of scholarly research and writings can be traced back to the Song Dynasty.
However, industry experts say that, “think of the Church,” the idea for such a long collection of traditional favorites, there is still reforming the past important contribution, it is worth serious study of buyers in Mainland China. It is worth mentioning that the New York Christie’s did not like their colleagues in Hong Kong Spring and Autumn each year only two major film, but there are dozens of auctions involving Impressionist and modern art, postwar and contemporary art and dozens of categories. Some one has roughly estimated the number of the bronze statue. Only in March and September each year organized by the Asian Art Week twice, including East Asia (Japan, South Korea), Southeast Asia, Central Asia, South Asia more than a dozen categories.
Even the Chinese art, albeit mainly to miscellaneous pieces of porcelain, but involves a broader category than Hong Kong, in addition to the Ming and Qing porcelain kiln, but also including ancient jade, bronze, stone until the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the monochrome porcelain, Ming and Qing furniture, fabric and so on. Only in terms of bronze statue with inscriptions from the Han Dynasty, the number is difficult to work out. This time we have seen in New York, only the tip of the iceberg. The site involved in so many Chinese people, indicates the global rise of a new generation of Chinese buyers.
Yi Zhou bronze pot will be 20 million reserve price auction. Hundreds of years ago, a pair of mid-Western Zhou bronze ritual of casting, “Zhou Yi kettle” Tibet Qing Dynasty palace. However, after successive years of Qing Dynasty, war, two “National Treasure” class cultural relics out of the palace, one of the National Palace Museum in Taipei has saved. Until now, the unearthed chinese bronze sculpture are up to a million pieces. The other one is after a series of displaced, was sold abroad. This year, Shanghai Chong source art auction collection to this lost overseas for many years, “Zhou Yi kettle” is expected to 20 million this month, the official selling price in the auction. Yesterday, this “national treasure” class relics came to Nanjing Museum exhibition.
Source Chong Chong, general manager of the construction season, told reporters in Taipei Palace Museum is now in possession of the week should not cover the pot there are devices in which more than 20 characters inside the inscription, the text reads, “Zhou should have respect for the public pot, its share in the case with its treasure forever with Sun Sun Zizi years. If coupled with the chinese bronze sculpture without inscriptions, one can have a fair knowledge of the numbers. This means that the inscriptions,” Zhou Yi “as their ancestors,” the public has “cast this sacrificial ritual pot, to being on display in the ancestral temple, and pray with the children and grandchildren treasure years. The shot on the pot this week and should be built in a former National Palace Museum in Taipei as a “twin brother”, the shape inscriptions are the same, and the device, cover all complete.
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