The Old Aristocracy in Porcelain: The Trend of The Yuan Qinghua Collection

Yuanqinghua porcelain has been excavated since around 1985. Because there was a demand for collection in the international market at that time, merchants and collectors in Hong Kong and Macao also attached great importance to it, and constantly went to the mainland to secretly search for it. However, at that time, the information was closed, the eyesight of mainland vendors was relatively poor, and they did not know much about foreign market prices. Therefore, Hong Kong and Macao antique dealers and collectors with good eyesight bought cheap leaks at a price of hundreds or thousands of yuan and smuggled them to Hong Kong and Macao. In the years leading up to 1995, the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao had formed an underground smuggling network, and if they were not connoisseurs and did not enter this extremely small range of online business circles, they would never see the real thing and buy the real thing. In fact, at that time, there were not often yuanqinghua porcelain excavations, the number of excavations was very small, it was rare to produce a piece of porcelain in a few years, and some porcelain was not of high taste, and many of them were missing meat or broken. But as soon as there is an excavation, the seller quickly looks for a buyer. Buyers also immediately looked at the offer, at which time the news did not go away and quickly spread in the industry. Although the news was leaked, there was no one in the industry who knew about it.

With the return of Hong Kong in 1997 and the rapid development of the national economy, the market gradually shifted to China. At this time, the business connoisseurs in the industry already have the strength to collect. As long as it is unearthed, it is bought as soon as the news has not been passed out, and then immediately hidden, and will never be exposed again. This is why later experts did not recognize the fact that there were yuanqinghua unearthed in the folk. Not only yuan qinghua, but also the antiques and cultural relics excavated by the people cannot let the experts get any information. This also includes a number of other reasons. But it does not mean that there are many yuan blue and white porcelain in the folk. Since 2000, enthusiasts have begun to collect yuanqinghua, and there is a market when there is demand, but it is not easy to find the real yuanqinghua. However, there are many collectors looking for yuanqinghua, the price is also high, the genuine product is not, and it is extremely difficult to find, in order to make money, it can only be counterfeited, so a large number of fakes began to flood during this period. Due to the lack of entry time of enthusiasts, and the lack of knowledge and eyesight and market experience, they always look forward to buying the heavy equipment of the country. The auctions and museums are all large artifacts, so they also like large artifacts and fantasize about collecting fine works.

In order to make money, counterfeiters make large bottles, large bowls, large plates for them. And it was sold at a medium price that was neither expensive nor cheap, so that the collectors mistakenly thought that they bought it at a price that was thin and leaky. In just a few years, many collectors have three or five pieces of fine yuanqinghua in their hands, and they all firmly believe that what they have is the real thing. After examining a large number of collections by enthusiasts, it was found that almost none of them were actually true yuan qinghua. After communicating with the collectors, I learned that the basic concepts and methods of their collection were incorrect. They don't know what channels to go through to buy antiques, how and how to buy and sell. as well as quotes prices. These are all professionally regulated. If you do not understand these complex hidden links and processes, it is extremely difficult to buy the real thing, which is also an important prerequisite for collecting antiques. For Tibetans who like but are not proficient, according to the words of the old antique industry, it does not matter if they do not understand, as long as they do not spend much money, blindly buying, hiding, blind play, is also a meaningful thing.