Traditional antiques line, one-on-one to learn the art of the teacher, this is the rule. Anyone who violates the rules of the trade will only be looked down upon by those in the industry. "One day as a teacher, lifelong as a father", this is the ancient precept, whoever violates this ancient precept is called deceiving the teacher and destroying the ancestors, and it is condemned by the whole society!
During the Republic of China, Qiu Yanzhi of the Shanghai antiques circle worshiped Zhu Erye (Zhu Heting) as a teacher and eventually became a generation of great collectors; during the Republic of China, Geng Baochang of the Beijing antiques industry, worshiped Sun Yingzhou as a teacher, and eventually became a generation of great appraisers; in the 1970s, Jin Xiaodong, a collector of the Shanghai press, worshiped the Shanghai Museum to identify Chang Yuhuang as a teacher, and eventually became a famous connoisseur of Shanghai ceramic collection; the wisdom of the collectors of the Shanghai poetry circle was enlightened by Xue Guisheng, the appraisal master of the Shanghai Cultural Relics Store, and later worshiped the Shanghai Museum of Culture and History librarian Yin Pingxiang as a teacher. He eventually became a famous ceramic collection appraisal theorist in Shanghai.
That is to say, collectors pay attention to the master's door, and the collection of eyesight will be gradually cultivated into a pair of fire eyes and golden eyes through years and decades of real and false trading practice training under the long-term adjustment of the master.
Traditional collectors start from visiting antique stalls. In the 1950s, Qiu Yanzhi picked up a Ming Cheng Hua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup for 1,000 Hong Kong dollars at a Hong Kong antique stall, and in 2014, Sotheby's Hong Kong auctioned 280 million Hong Kong dollars by Shanghai's big buyer Liu Yiqian, how many times has it doubled in 60 years? Readers can calculate for themselves. In the 1940s and 1980s and 1990s, Wang Shixiang, a former expert in the Forbidden City, spent a few yuan, tens of yuan, hundreds of yuan, and thousands of yuan on antique stalls to pick up how many leaks, and in the 1910s, Wang Shixiang's old collection of Ming and Qing copper incense burners and character bamboo carvings was auctioned for millions of yuan.
Orthodox archaeologists do archaeological research on cultural relics at the ruins of ancient tombs in the fields; traditional collectors do antique archaeological collection research in antique stalls and antique city markets. The difference between the two is only the difference in the scene, but the method of archaeological identification is similar. Many of the great collectors who are now famous all over the world, such as Zhang Zongxian in Hong Kong, have promoted a new generation of entrepreneurial collectors and investors at the World Congress of Chinese Collectors, and they should collect "real and new" (that is, they should collect real, exquisite, and new official kiln ware) collections, not "Singapore", (that is, do not collect new, fake, broken) collections.
In fact, half a century ago, Zhang Zongxian fell from Shanghai and came to Hong Kong with hundreds of dollars, and he did not first go to Hong Kong antique stalls to mix and buy and sell new fake and broken things. Later, he made a fortune by buying and selling antiques, and in the 1980s, he helped the world's two most famous auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, to enter Hong Kong, and he first sold and bought his own things, that is, he and his friends bought things, and bought the people he and his friends, net allowing the auction house to earn commissions. It wasn't until Sotheby's Christie's gained a foothold in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong collectors understood auctions as a trading method that he began to make a profit between auctions and auctions. By the 1910s, he was worth at least a few billion Hong Kong dollars.
The above examples of the deceased big collectors Qiu Yanzhi, Wang Shixiang and Zhang Zongxian are to tell the majority of collectors that the big collectors who really have eyesight in modern times have started from visiting antique stalls.
For another example, Liu Yiqian, a large buyer who has made a fortune by relying on the stock of legal persons to make a fortune, has spent billions of yuan in auction houses at home and abroad, and Liu Yiqian, a large buyer of tens of millions and hundreds of millions of calligraphy and painting official kiln collections, has actually collected for more than 20 years, and his wife Wang Wei was the manager in charge of the auction business of the Shanghai City God Temple Auction House and was a friend of the author. At that time, the author helped her do a lot of publicity, and Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei started in the Shanghai City God Temple business circle.
In the industry of collecting in Shanghai, how can anyone with a history of collecting for more than 20 years not go to the nearby HuijiLu Antique Market and Fuyou Road Antique Market to shop for treasure hunting? The female collector Wang Wei met me through a friend who opened a shop on Huiji Road Antique Street, and I also made a special trip to Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei's villa near the Yuanshen Stadium in Pudong at that time, and went to his house to appreciate the miscellaneous collection of calligraphy and painting ceramics collected from the antique market auction market.
Whether it is modern and contemporary collectors, large and small collectors, began to collect antiques, mostly from the antique stalls.
For this reason, look for experts to ask for advice from him, and you may have room for development in the collection circle. On the contrary, it is certain that you do not look for an "organization", rely only on your own arbitrariness, spend a lot of money unjustly, and may also collect a room full of fakes.
For example, if you collect ceramics, Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain who plays well, you listen to this person; gaogu ceramics who play well, you listen to this person; jade miscellaneous who plays well, you listen to this person; celebrities who play well in calligraphy and painting, you listen to this person. The opinions of the rest of the people, you can only refer to. Then your level of appraisal appreciation will improve very quickly, and you will soon be close to the person you "worship".
Even if you worship the master and teacher you recognize, sometimes you may see the wrong thing, and you still have to listen to him before you have true eyesight. To use an analogy, the eyesight of the master and teacher you worship is ninety percent accurate, and before you understand it, listen to him everything, then the standard answer you get may be ninety percent right.
In addition, the growth of traditional collectors is "the master introduces the door, the practice depends on himself", that is, first worship the antique celebrities as a teacher, learn the solid basic knowledge, and then go to the antique stall to find treasures, and then go to the antique market to buy goods. It is necessary to pay the tuition fee for taking medicine and buying fakes, and collectors who claim to have never bought fakes, or collectors of ancestral heirs, or pseudo-collectors with false names. The fun of playing antiques is in the true and false, after practicing eyesight, you can independently go to the fake and save the truth, which is called the basic teacher.
The contemporary collecting world, although it has entered the computer age of high-tech and rapid advancement. If you are not learning from a teacher one-on-one, you can still find a lot of specific antique identification knowledge within a few minutes, through the Mobile Phone Internet. But all the picture audio and video materials of the antique trade are illusory, that is, in the museum through the glass to see the real thing, see is also an illusory thing, because you can not get started, no feel, no sense of touch, no sense of smell, did not see the wonderful microscopic world under the magnifying glass; how do you distinguish the true from the false? Book knowledge alone is a matter of paper. Only one-on-one, follow the teacher, follow the master to see the real thing, and carefully and deeply learn the knowledge of appreciation and appraisal, you can become an orthodox collector.
Although the so-called "one-on-one, learn from the master" is not limited to holding a worship feast with both hands and formally learning from the master, but hopes that in your personal collection circle, you will find an expert expert whose level is significantly higher than yours and recognize him as a teacher.
In the practice of collecting, the author often finds those who are smart, self-assured, know many collectors, today he will show this thing to the A connoisseur, tomorrow to the B expert, the day after tomorrow to the Internet, let the people who do not really know the words of the judgment. As a result, he was confused, confused, and did not know who to listen to. There is no benchmark in the heart, there is no answer to the standard answer, and the person who ends up taking the fake seriously and taking the false answer as the standard answer!
In short, the so-called "one-on-one, learn from the teacher" is to tell you, in your collection circle, look for the "teacher" in your collection options. That is, you collect furniture, you collect jade, etc., in the initial stage, you must take a person as a teacher and follow him to learn. With the improvement of your collection appraisal level ability, you look for a more level of collector experts in the collection circle at a higher level, "recognize" him and "worship" him as a teacher, the road is right, then the improvement of your appraisal eyesight will improve by leaps and bounds.
The author has publicly judged in the collection lectures many times: those who are too arrogant, too stubborn, too selfish, too lonely, too careful, too clever, can not play antiques. Anyone who does not "recognize" a certain connoisseur recognized in a certain field as a teacher, and who does not "worship" a recognized expert in a certain field as a teacher, can only become a collector of low-end collectibles who entertains himself, or a counterfeit collector, and cannot enter the collection avenue of Kangzhuang, and it is difficult to become an orthodox big collector.
An antique collector, whether it is a beginner or a doorman, there is no problem in formally not worshiping the teacher, but he must recognize the teacher in his heart. Recognize the teacher, worship the master, "there is a mountain outside the mountain, there is a sky outside the sky", you will always move forward on the right path of collection, and you will slowly walk up the slope from the mountain path of the collection, climb to the top of the mountain, and look at the more distant collection sun.......
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