Bronze fall from the source of this special film hall

This year in spring and autumn in New York Christie’s auction of much industry attention bronze. During this period the making of china bronze sculpture reached its zenith. spring auction is still the Sackler collections received by the market, the grand launch of the company’s autumn auction of Andy Ho Anthony Hardy from the source collection the bronze special court shot, breaking the Over the past decade a number of bronze auction first.

March 25 shot on the first 83 group Sackler collection, including 36 group before the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Liupai only a bronze, of which 3 sold more than $ 100,000. High 36.5 cm of Shang Western Zhou Dynasty taotie offer estimated 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. dollars, shot to $ 146,500, the auction early as 1973, that is, from Sotheby’s sold, then many times by U.S. study who works in the revenue collectors. The museums across China and some important museums outside China, have all collected Chinese bronze sculpture dating back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Mr. Chen Mengjia 1977 book Yinzhou Qing Bronze classification catalog in the income of this piece; followed by 38.1 cm long shot on the late Western Zhou bronze washbasin with a tubular handle also captured $ 134,500, also handed down several of the record; high 29.2 cm of the late Warring States bronze taotie sold pot to $ 110,500, this pot in 1971 by Sotheby's autumn auction sold.

The company shot the next day on the miscellaneous special in Chinese porcelain, shot 13 on the ancient bronze was all shoot high, and four price over $ 100,000. June 1973 was sold by the rich than the Shang Dynasty Lundun Su Animal Mask round tripod to $ 158,500 price; 2007 released by the company’s spring auction Animal Mask of the early Western Zhou Gui also $ 158,500 changed hands, this pieces of the early 1940s, the collection is Arthur B. Michael, 1942, 1977 and has worked in New York, Japan, was published; Some of china bronze sculpture are part of the cultural heritage passed down through the generations, but most of them were dug up from underneath the earth. out of China by the Japanese during World War II collection of early Western Zhou Gui Animal Mask shot to $ 386,500 out, this Gui width 25.4 cm, bottom carved four-character ming models; Ritual bronze sculpture refer to those objects employed by aristocrats in sacrificial ceremonies or audiences. collection of Han people who Eskenazi copper lamps sold for $ 104,500, this lamp high 22.2 cm, is representative of the Han Dynasty artifacts man-lights.

September 16, Christie’s New York launch of the think of the Church of ancient Chinese bronze collection special shot, is the only a decade the theme of China’s private collection of bronze special film, shot on the 122 group auction before making valuation of more than $ 15 million. These bronze sculpture include food containers, wine vessels, water pots and musical instruments. Since most objects specifically shot the last century collection of famous collections in Europe and America, and has a clear heritage collection, making the former has been the industry’s good. The miscellaneous objects refer to bronze sculpture for daily use. Sure enough, a 98 day turnover, turnover rate of 80.33%, the total transaction price reached $ 20.751 million (about 140.8371 million yuan), Chinese bronzes turnover in recent years, the highest turnover rate of a special film, which five auction price of more than a million dollars, the late Shang Fang Yi to shoot an even cover the high price of $ 3,330,500 (about 22.604 million yuan). If the RMB exchange rate point of view, 98 transactions, 24 prices of goods more than a million yuan, of which four price over 10 million yuan, the Chinese bronze on the auction market in Europe and prices move up to a new level.

Bronze artifacts have been art collectors at home and abroad as a top heavy device, the 1990s New York, famous collections have sold millions of dollars on a fine bronze. And the possession of such bronze sculpture was regarded as a status symbol. Such as the March 20, 1997, Hong Kong Min Chiu Tsui Tsin-tong contemplation Church members beat the second designed by Christie's auction house in New York, several pieces of bronze products are sold an unprecedented high price: the Western Zhou Dynasty taotie animal number 38 surface Daqing tripod (height 57.2 cm) sold for $ 1,652,500 of the high prices, is known in the 1990s, the highest closing price auctions a Chinese bronzes; No. 42, the late Western Zhou bronze He deformation wild animal ( length 33 cm) to $ 387,500 deal. The ornaments on the chinese bronze sculpture are an important element of the spiritual content of the bronze ware. On 18 September the same year, Tsui Tsin-tong’s third film is also special collections from the Sotheby’s auction in New York, the film's five more than bronze in full before the estimated price to shoot film, No. 117 of the Spring and Autumn period patterns of animals and birds are also bronze Gui Fang sold for $ 387,500.

Bronze fall from the source of this special film hall, boutique prices have cost over a million dollars, indicates the collectors at home and abroad has not diminished the enthusiasm for the bronze. In comparison with counterparts in other parts of the world, the Chinese bronze sculpture stand out for their inscriptions which are regarded as major chapters in the Chinese history of calligraphy. And this enthusiasm is highly contagious effects in the Chinese market, its prospects, I do not seem superfluous.