Jun kiln porcelain is extremely precious, which has many sayings in the folk:
For example, "Jun porcelain is not right, the kiln becomes unmatched", "into the kiln one color, out of the kiln ten thousand colors" and so on. For the commercial value of jun porcelain, there is a folk proverb that says: "Enter the southwest mountain, seven miles long street now." Seventy-seven kilns, fireworks covering the sky. Merchants go all over the world, and the daily money is fighting. "The number and shape of jun porcelain firing in the past generations have been strictly controlled by the court, so there are few works passed down from generation to generation, and the natural artistic value of the jun kiln is also favored by people, so it has been loved by collectors in the auction market, and the transaction price has soared year by year."
In 2008, Sotheby's Spring Auction in Hong Kong released the "Ming 15th Century Jun Kiln Azure Glaze Bell Pot" for 35.57 million yuan.
In 2018, at the China Guardian Autumn Auction, it was known as "the most important Jun kiln porcelain in the history of auction" - the early Ming Dynasty Jun kiln azure glazed flower pot appeared at the auction site, and this Jun kiln flower pot started at 20 million yuan and finally sold for 48.88 million yuan, refreshing the auction record of the Jun kiln.
In May 2019, Christie's Hong Kong "Digital Jun" special sale sold for 12.55 million yuan for a "four" style of Jun porcelain, which is a private family collection in Asia and sold for 6.18 million yuan at Sotheby's in New York in 2008.
In the porcelain auction and collection market, the works of Master Liu Fu'an are unique. Liu Fu'an is well known in the jun porcelain art world, but his works entered the auction market late. In 2012, Liu Fu'an's works entered the auction for the first time, only 2 pieces were auctioned, but there was no transaction, although the time of entering the auction was late, but after several years of market expansion, and due to the scarcity of the world, and years of market accumulation, the development momentum was rapid, the increase was rapid, Liu Fu'an's works in the spring of 2014 broke the record many times, reaching the level of one million yuan, and his work market made a historic breakthrough.
According to public auction data, as of 2019, Liu Fu'an Jun's porcelain works have been auctioned for a total of 34 pieces, 29 pieces have been sold, and the turnover is 29.36 million yuan. Combined with Liu Fu'an's many years of creative career and the number of creations, Liu Fu'an's works are not released in the market. The main reason is that Liu Fu'an's strict artistic pursuit is rare compared to other modern and contemporary artists; in addition, some of Liu Fu'an's important and award-winning works are collected in the National Museum of China, the Art Museum of China and art museums across the country, and have not entered the auction market circulation.
Liu Fu'an's contribution to the development of jun porcelain art comes from his unique play and innovation in the modeling, glazing and glazing of jun porcelain. On the other hand, it comes from Liu Fu'an's jun porcelain art charm: Liu Fu'an's jun porcelain not only inherits the spiritual connotation of traditional jun porcelain culture, but also has a sense of the times with contemporary aesthetic taste, which meets the price selection and artistic aesthetic needs of the art market in a timely manner.
The spring of 2014 can be described as a season of Liu Fu'an Jun's high price record. Although the macroeconomic unintended decline, the art market showed a low-level adjustment of the development trend, the contemporary porcelain market is more sluggish, Liu Fuan's works instead rose against the trend, only this year on the auction of 30 pieces, 28 pieces of transactions, the turnover rate of up to 93.33%, a total of 29.07 million yuan. Among them, the works sold for more than 3 million yuan accounted for 7%, and the lot turnover in the range of 1 million and 3 million yuan accounted for 28%.
In June 2014, an "olive bottle" by Liu Fu'an was sold for 1.035 million yuan, breaking the million yuan mark for the first time and setting a new auction record for artists' works. This piece of auction is unique in shape, tall and beautiful, and the glaze is light and elegant, interweaving to create a magnificent scenery of "moon shadow green glow". The elegant and wonderful glaze color complements the upright bottle body, which is rustic and elegant.
Subsequently, a "Yishou bottle" once again refreshed Liu Fu'an's auction record at a price of 3.795 million yuan, which is also the most expensive work sold by Liu Fu'an Jun porcelain so far. "Yishou bottle", also known as "exotic beast bottle", absorbs the artistic characteristics of plum bottles and traditional tiger head door rings, and is decorated with gluttonous beasts, which contains the meaning of "prolonging life, peace and tranquility, and repeling evil spirits in zhenbao". The glaze color of this bottle is melted and flowed by high temperature, and it penetrates into each other, and the upright bottle body provides a vast space for the wonderful air change scene, and it looks more magnificent.
At this auction, there is another "Yishou bottle" that started at 800,000 yuan and finally sold for 3.45 million yuan, in addition to another "rich bottle" that started at 1 million yuan and finally changed hands at a high price of 2.99 million yuan, the smooth transaction of these three lots has boosted the total auction transaction volume of Liu Fu'an Jun's porcelain works to a new height, accounting for 34.86% of its auction turnover in previous years.
Liu Fu'an jun porcelain market prospects, investment value
Ancient jun porcelain has attracted much attention in the auction market, but due to the scarcity of the number, it is difficult to form a market scale. In recent years, contemporary jun porcelain has begun to enter the eyes of collectors, but the market needs a cognitive process for the artistic value and market value of contemporary jun porcelain, and the market for contemporary jun porcelain has yet to be discovered.
Due to the low yield of jun porcelain works and extremely difficult to fire, many people's understanding of jun porcelain is still very vague, so the culture, history, kiln changes, and mechanism of jun porcelain are publicized, so that more people can feel the production and firing process of jun porcelain, in order to understand how many pieces of debris are used for a good work. Liu Fu'an adhered to such a strict manufacturing process and smashed several dried pieces of finished products. The shape of his works is very rich, on the one hand, he inherits the shape of traditional jun porcelain, on the other hand, he has learned a lot of other kiln decoration porcelain shapes, creating many unique jun porcelain artworks, such as olive bottles with slanted mouths and single ears, mushroom bottles, etc.
At present, Liu Fu'an Jun porcelain is still in a value depression, compared with the artist's creative ability and artistic value, there is room for value exploration, especially as a non-renewable work of art, the number is scarce, and the future price trend is worth looking forward to.
Source: Spiegel Tai Art Museum