Since 2003, the price of contemporary jade carvings has been rising continuously, with an average annual increase of 60%-100%. How to evaluate the quality of a contemporary jade carving work? How to judge whether there is a huge room for appreciation in the future?
How to judge the quality of jade carving
For most collectors, they have not worked in the arts and crafts industry, and have rarely studied professional knowledge in art colleges. Therefore, judging the artistic value of a work is not an easy task. However, there are some simple basic methods to draw on.
The judgment of the quality of the jade carving of contemporary jade carving can be understood by comparing Jade with Hetian jade. In the line, everyone compares jade to a woman; compares Hetian jade to a man. Because jadeite grows in the tropics, it is cool, colorful, and full of water. The "head" is good, and it is an important criterion for evaluating the quality of a jade raw material. Hetian jade grows in the bitter cold zone of the northwestern mountain. The environment is harsh and the climate is cold. However, Hetian jade is warm, so the industry also called Hetian jade "Wen Yu".
Over the years, China's arts and crafts industry has been using two different methods for the treatment of jade with a woman's character and Hetian jade with a man's character: for jade, it highlights its ostentatious color and shows its The texture, the most beautiful and most jumping color of the raw materials is expressed in the most important part of a work, which is the part of the finishing touch; for Hetian jade, it uses more introverted techniques to highlight the texture and design of Hetian jade itself. The connotation is not easy to modify with too many processes.
Whether it is Hetian jade or jade, whether it is appropriate or not, creating different works according to the changes of different raw materials is an important criterion for measuring the artistic quality of a work. Because jade itself is non-renewable, and the master of art is able to make good use of every part and characteristics of raw materials.
Art content is more important than material quality
The quality of the material is very important for a jade carving, but it is not the most important. In recent years, the fastest appreciation is not the best jade carving products, but the works of art created by Master Gongmei. Many collectors will find that the jade carving works created by some master craftsmen in the market today are often medium-grade. Some works are even made of relatively low-grade raw materials, but the price has reached tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of yuan, and even Millions of dollars. Why are these works so expensive? Is it really worth the money?
The work of the jade carving masters is to turn a common raw material into a work of art—ingeniously by the transformation of the color of the raw materials themselves, plus their own craftsmanship, to make their beauty and perfection. This is the process of creating art, just like a painter.
From the collection of paintings and calligraphy, the cost of paper and ink is negligible in the price of a painting. No collector has said that Qi Baishi’s paintings are not cheap because they are too cheap. The same is true for the collection of contemporary jade carving art. The masters of Gongmei are also artists. They give the artistic content of raw materials, so the price of the final works includes the value of raw materials and artistic value. So in many cases, a jade carving art, the artistic value given to it by the creator, far exceeds the value of its raw materials.
What are the potential for more appreciation?
At present, the most popular jade carving products on the market are all kinds of jewellery and small pieces that can be held in the palm of your hand. Not only jade, but also Hetian jade. If you buy a good jade bracelet now, or buy a small piece of Hetian jade seed, how much will the future appreciation space be?
In a long historical period, the future appreciation is certain, but for collectors, if they can grasp the most potential varieties in the future in the fast-growing market, they can gain more than the market. The level of excess returns is more representative of the biggest difference between art investment and financial products and real estate market investment.
How can we get excess investment income in contemporary jade carving? It is not difficult to find out that the large-scale production of jade carvings began in the Qing Dynasty. Throughout the Qing Dynasty, it is not difficult to find the royal jade. Its main body is aromatherapy, chain bottle, placard, bonsai, square pot, respect and other large objects. Bracelets and other accessories are not mainstream. These artifacts were also carved by famous teachers at the time, and now they are frequently seen in various antique markets and auctions.
Over the years, a large number of high-grade jade raw materials have been processed into bracelets, ring faces, pendants and other products with a simple and repeated process. This lack of artistic connotation has led to a more obvious price cycle of contemporary jade carvings and increased price fluctuations. However, the jade carving art created by the artist adds artistic connotation on the basis of the value of its raw materials, which can largely resist the fluctuation caused by the value of raw materials.
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