The Church of ancient Chinese bronze collection special shot

Last year, Hong Kong and the Mainland market, the high turnover on a small number of bronze, only Christie’s on December 1 to 2.66 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot one pair of Dragon Spring and Autumn Period bronze animal ears Kui pot, two pots a covered nothing, Covered are usually 62.5 cm, without cover were high 54 cm, pot with a pair of ears, respectively, phoenix wings off shape, very strange. The technique to cast bronze sculpture in Wu state of the Spring and Autumn period has reached the peak of perfection. This year in spring and autumn in New York Christie’s auction of much industry attention bronze, 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. The celebrated casters of china bronze sculpture are Gan Jiang, Mo Ye, Ou Yezi, ect. 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, Mr. Chen Mengjia 1977 book Yinzhou Qing Bronze classification catalog in the income of this piece; The noted sword, one kind of bronze sculpture have Yu Chang, Chun Jun, Sheng Ye, Zhan Lu, Ju Que, Pan Ying and so on. 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.

Speaking of china bronze sculpture, the best known bronze sword among the collections in the Chinese museums should be the Goujian (King of Yue state) sword. 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, has worked in New York, Japan, was published; 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; 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. The chinese bronze sculpture is placed in a black lacquered scabbard with a whole 55.6 cm length. 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. 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). This bronze sculpture was dug out in the noble tombs of the Spring and Autumn period in Wang mountain, Jiangling, Hubei in December 1965. 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.