Ancient Chinese Bronze Statue in the Market
In less than a week after the news broke, the Second Expo of China International Investment and art collection opened at the Beijing Exhibition Center. Under the situation that the domestic market of cultural relic had been repeatedly assaulted by the counterfeits, distinct from the previous expositions with the similar theme, fidelity and integrity became a major feature of this Art Fair. Some Medias had linked this fair with that withdrawal event for comparison.
Although the art market in 2007 did not bring us many surprises, but a series of standardized markets, auctions and the team of experts by the country at the end of 2007, showing that the market of collection was making changes from the unordered resale of artworks to the formal of the transaction of the art market, which was a good sigh. Maybe it was just the special time of 2007 which supply us with a good opportunity to regulate the market of china bronze sculpture.
For the market of the collection of the bronze statue, the writer believed that it is important to have a stable mind. First we need to know that the bronze statues are protected by the National Heritage department and not allowed to trade freely in the market or for auction. Although a small amount of bronze statue each year is in line with the national standards to carry through the bronze sculpture auction, but never compare the bronze statue with the rising numbers of domestic porcelain, calligraphy and painting. Bronze statue has its own identity constraints, resulting in a slow development of the market in terms of Chinese bronze statues. The bronze statues for auction in China are more low-grade, poor price, small number and the low turnover rate which is inevitable. This kind of trading relationship restrains the psychology of many domestic buyers resulting in the long-term depression in the domestic market. However, in recent years, in order to obtain the market conditions of Chinese bronze statue, we can set our eyes on the auctions in Macau, Hong Kong and overseas. Because the chinese bronze sculpture appeared in these places are mostly Chinese genuine treasures. For the overseas auction markets are much more mature, the foreign collectors are competing for bidding Chinese bronze statue.
Besides the forgery event happened in the bronze market of 2007, there have been some new developments: “return artifacts” became the mainstream of foreigners cheating the Chinese greedy buyers.
This year stirred up a gust of “backflow wind” in China, large and small auction houses played the signboard of returnees’ relics to attract buyers. Leaving aside the returnee of the auction shops, after all, they are valuated tens of millions easily which the common people can not afford. Moreover, they are also out of reach of the majority of domestic collectors still far, so the commons can only be onlookers for china bronze sculpture. Speaking of the private collectors, these returnee heritages the ordinary people have bought were three times of last year’s. The author has participated in many activities of treasure evaluation this year, in which such a phenomenon emerged that many owners of the treasures claimed that theirs came from abroad. Some were bought at the spare time after work and some were during the tourist abroad. Anyhow, they all believed that there were fakes everywhere inside the country while the ones in foreign countries were true. And the foreigners have not any knowledge of forging, so they will not counterfeit deliberately. However, the identification results are on the contrary, these things are mostly fakes made by Chinese decades ago to deceive the foreigners, as a result, great many fake antiques had been purchased as souvenirs and took back from abroad. But now, many Chinese are as naive as to go abroad to hunt bargains. It is ridiculous to spend the equivalent of several times the original price of a fake bronze sculpture.
Collection has always been the business of the minorities, not for the entire people. All in all, the number of real bronze state is fixed and not everyone can be lucky enough to get one genuine. The collection requires starting from learning and can not be anxious for success. The ability to make discerning judgments is accumulated bit by bit in the practice.
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