In the face of the "no market" market, as a collector' you will choose? Some people are impetuous and blindly insulting, but to no avail. There are old collectors who are calm and introverted and choose to be low-key, anyway, just a hobby can always wait for spring. There are also many Tibetan friends who simply conform to the general trend, while pursuing the current popularity, while not giving up the real boutique, more blossoms.
I belong to the latter, I like the lightness, elegance and quietness of Song porcelain, but rationality prompts me to constantly try the varieties that can be traded. Song porcelain is my hobby, even if there is no market, I am willing to learn to explore, modern porcelain speculation, I am also willing to go to the actual battle, because this is the means of survival to maintain the hobby of collecting.
Guangxu Min kiln rich Wandai fine road large bowl
At this year's antique exchange meeting at the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing, I was invited by an old friend to see a lively one. This old friend is not a professional antique dealer, but he has also been on the front line for many years, and there are so many stalls competing on the spot, and his stall has a lot of traffic.
Half a day of kung fu, he sold a large bowl of the Guangxu Min kiln with an old door, 5400 yuan. Four silver dollars were sold for currency, Beiyang Shipping and the like, adding up to nearly 10,000 yuan. There are also miscellaneous all kinds of things, twenty or thirty thousand into the account, smiling and smiling.
I coaxed him to invite him to dinner, naturally I got ying to find a restaurant, a few glasses of wine, the old friend opened the conversation box: "Now these goods are not low in price, in fact, they will make some market money, I think back then, the real goods on the stalls can be wholesale." ”
Yes, it is "thinking of that year", people, people, after experiencing more things, like to reminisce about the past.
More than a decade ago, the antique market experienced a period of prosperity, when although the major counterfeiting bases have begun to "stop the car", but there are still a considerable number of genuine goods.
According to an old friend, at that time, the folk kilns of the Republic of China in the Qing Dynasty could be found in less than 100 yuan, even if the Ming Dynasty was only a few hundred pieces. What green pine, southern red are sold in piles, Russian jade on the jin sold. Now the expensive Xianfeng big money is sold with long wires strung into a big string, and the silver dollar takes out a few red tickets, and the whole antique city is randomly picked.
A large number of antique merchants and folk collectors made their fortunes from the stalls that these people despised. But later everyone knows that counterfeiting is rampant, "national treasures" flood the market, and the antique market begins to decline. Entering today's Internet era, those who were once ordinary old goods have begun to soar!
The reason is not difficult to understand, antiques are non-renewable things, selling one less piece, less and less supply, not rising is strange. These gains far outweigh inflation, such as 45 yuan 20 years ago, and now more than 1300 yuan. A fine piece of kiln in the Qianjia period is only a few hundred yuan, and now it is thousands of dollars larger. Once can be wholesale green pine, southern red, now good new goods are more than 100 yuan on the gram price.
I didn't catch up with that era, unfortunately. According to the veteran players I know, they have more or less earned the dividends of the times, and some people have chosen to become a thorough antique dealer, doing the business of buying and selling backwards. Some people began to abandon currency and march to auctions, using the profits earned to buy more expensive official kilns, ancient jade, and silver dollar treasures. There are also people who pay more attention to the quality of life, collecting is just a hobby, it doesn't matter if you earn it or not, just be happy.
But without exception, these "tasted sweet" old players will leave a way back for themselves, that is, they must have one or more big famous products in their hands.
The white glaze of the kiln is engraved with water waves and mouth plates
Works of art have indelible, non-depreciated and historical unique characteristics, no matter what period of antique art, you just need to penetrate into its culture is a realm. Most of the old collectors who have played for many years have entered or are close to retirement, and how to leave a fortune to future generations, whether material or spiritual, is a problem.
Just like the rich people who hold up their cards at auctions, for ordinary people, a few million is a huge amount of money, but for the huge rich, a few million is simply a small amount of money. Money will continue to depreciate, and how to use this money to cultivate the temperament of yourself and your children is the most important.
Cultural relics throughout the ages are the continuation of the foundation of national culture, although today has been filled with a lot of copper smell, but there is no doubt that it is still the best choice to retain spiritual and material wealth. Folk collectors, although they do not have the capital of those huge riches, after years of accumulation, they have left several fine works, which carry deep memories, which have feelings in them.
For the antiques that can circulate at present, there are not so many virtual ones, just to make money, using a deeper eye and understanding of market channels, buying low and selling high, and accumulating the "first bucket of gold". Some people are lost in it because they are not enlightened enough, and some people are keen to "pick up big leaks" and finally have chicken feathers, but the real old collectors know that the circulation of antiques is just business, and the last pursuit is that my heart is at peace.
When the famous boutique is in the pocket, it will be "at ease", although it is only a "temporary custodian", and it is impossible to retain it for generations. But at least to prove that they have come to this world, have admired the wisdom of the ancients, and witnessed the development and prosperity of the motherland, and the culture is a classic that can withstand the inheritance of generations.
Even if you want to liquidate in the future, you will not say anything about the "orderly inheritance" directly from the auction house. In the past few decades, China's antique market, from the black market to the bazaar, has not yet risen to the height of the national market, but the "Cultural Relics Protection Law", which has long been unsuitable for today's situation, still maintains its original state in the face of the sharp rise in the collection demand of the people. With the increasingly loud voice of society and the urgent need for China's antique art market to be integrated with international standards, it is only a matter of time before the relevant laws are revised.
Therefore, as long as you can keep the fine products, not the kind of irrational "so-and-so gang", then the collection you have devoted half your life to will definitely bring rich returns. True, fine, rare collections will never become obsolete, like high ancient porcelain and high ancient jade are not low in existence, but the cultural value is much higher than the circulation of antiques, but the law currently does not allow circulation transactions, which leads to the continuous surge of ordinary goods.
Once you open this opening, you can imagine how much economic potential there is. And it is not an exaggeration to say that the fine products will only become more and more expensive, because it is really difficult to find the real thing on the market, and it is precipitated in the hands of old collectors. The state has also begun to pilot the cultural relics trading of private merchants in Shanghai, and it is estimated that the full opening up will be in recent years, and the players who can take out the "hard goods" will be the real collectors!