Several Factors Affect the Prices of Bronze Sculpture (1)
As one of the Chinese art treasures, the bronze sculpture always has their irreplaceable artistic value. In recent years, the market of china bronze sculpture in the art auction market whether in domestic or international market is advancing day by day and become a “dark horse” in the artworks. Anyhow, we have no idea about the links between its price and intrinsic value.
In response to this phenomenon, it is reasonable to believe that the auction price of the bronze sculpture is running at record levels in succession the last two years. For example, the auction in Shanghai Chongyuan sold one Zhouyi pot with a fetch of 26.4 million yuan. Recently, there is almost no such large and well-preserved bronze sculpture and its appearance seems to break the market of bronze sculpture which has been silenced, meanwhile, propose a new understanding of the value of the bronze vessels.
Bronze sculptures are treasures of Chinese culture. The concern and attention from the people credit its profound historical and cultural connotations. China’s Bronze Age began at late Shang and early Zhou around 2000 BC. To the mid-Western Zhou Dynasty, bronze sculpture whether in terms of artistic achievement or on the level of technology, has reached a peak that has never been approached and will never be approached again. A large number of very valuable art treasures have been brought forth. At the beginning of the appearance of bronze sculpture, it has been widely used in ancient activities, such as the sacrifice, visit to the emperor, banquet, funeral and other ceremonial activities. The common people were forbidden to employ any of the ritual vessels. Besides, ritual bronze sculptures still were the embodiment of the etiquette at that time. That’s to say that these devices are in possession of ceremony in old Chinese. A legend written in the ancient literature named the emperor of Yu cast nine tripods. So the ding became a symbol f the nine states at that time, in the meantime, it was on behalf of royalty. From this story, we can recognize the highness of the bronze’s position.
It can be said that the collection of bronze sculpture is generated with the emergence of them. According to historical records, people in the Western Zhou Dynasty had begun to attach importance to collect the bronze sculptures belonged to the former dynasty and took them as sacred objects. In addition, the study of bronze sculpture started from the Han Dynasty, in the Song formatted the study of inscriptions on ancient bronze sclptures and stone tablets; in Ming and Qing time, it had been greatly developed; in the Republic of China (1912-1949), the scientific archaeological research has taken part in. All these studies and researches have encouraged the development of the study on the bronze statue. During that time, owning one piece of bronze statue or more and knowing of identifying the bronze statues had almost become a sign of noble status for the upper classes. Enthusiasm for the pursuit of china bronze has been continued for thousands of years. By 1949, monographs about the research of Chinese bronzes had reached more hundreds far beyond that on any other vessels.
Chinese bronze sculpture not only has various species, a long history and large quantity, they also hold high historical value, artistic value, scientific value and economic value. The major museums around the world are focused on the collection of Chinese bronze sculpture, such as the Freer Museum of United States, British Museum, and Tokyo National Museum in Japan all have specialized collections of chinese bronze sculptures in the museum hall. They spare no effort to collect bronze treasures. In the West, bronze sculpture is considered as artworks which are on a par with famous sculptures and oil paintings be collected.
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