Hetian New Jade Collection Top Four Tips

With the increase of the price of Hetian jade seed material and the decrease of market supply, the potential for the new jade collection is not small. However, experts said that the collection of new jade should also be focused on quality products, and it should be good in terms of newness, extraordinaryness, absoluteness, and excellence. Only in this way can we gain greater profits.

New jade collection sought after

"The stocks have gone up and down, and the last one afterwards has been very good. But the prices of several pieces of jade that I have bought have already turned several times. It is still a collection of jade." Mr. Chen, a Shanghai collector, told reporters.

Mr. Chen is the marketing director of an advertising company and usually likes to invest. Since touching the jade, he has fallen in love with it. Mr. Chen has collected new jade. In his hands, he has successively collected works of some provincial jade carving masters. At that time, the purchase price was one or two thousand yuan. Some of the finely carved ornaments, etc., now rose to three or four. Ten thousand yuan.

Like Mr. Chen, there are a lot of people who favor the collection of new jade. When visiting journalists in Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou, the reporter learned that in the last two years, more and more collectors have specialized in the acquisition of jade for long-term collections.

Investors' crazy move in the auction market can prove that Xinyu has become popular. At the beginning of November 2010, Xiling Yinshe Auction Co., Ltd. “Contemporary Chinese jade carving master works auction”, 82 pieces of contemporary jade carving master works, the total turnover rate of 90.2%, the total turnover reached 39 million yuan. Among them, the representative of Haipai jade sculpture and Wu Desheng, a master of Chinese arts and crafts, won the “2009 China Arts and Crafts Silver Award” work, starting with 5.8 million yuan. After more than 20 rounds of bidding, he was eventually paid a 9 million yuan by a middle-aged man. The sky-high price is in the bag, but the total weight of this white jade decoration is only 376 grams.

In fact, Xinyu was sought after as early as two or three years ago. It is understood that as early as the beginning of 2008, some new jades such as jade tiles and jade beads that are expected to be color-coded, with good subject meanings, and exquisite workmanship, have attracted the attention of investors. Some works from famous jade carving masters have become investment in collections. The new darling, prices continue to rise. Xiling Yinshe Auction Co., Ltd. debuted in 2009 the “Special Auction of Contemporary Masterpieces of Chinese Ancient Jade Carvings”, which received a warm response from the community. The autumn auctions in the autumn of 2009 and the spring auction in 2010 exceeded 80%.

The scarcity of raw materials is the main reason

The rise in the price of jade raw materials rose again, which, to a large extent, allowed collectors to see the appreciation potential of Xinyu.

The collection of new jade has become a new favorite of collectors. In fact, it has a close relationship with rising raw material prices. Huang Yuxian, a jade carving master in Zhejiang Province, told reporters quite sensibly: “In the past ten years, the price of white jade seed has risen by an average of ten times.”

Huang Yuxian said that it is actually a fact. It is understood that before and after 2002, the Hetian jade seed material was about 30,000 yuan per kilogram, but now it has risen to 2-3 million yuan per kilogram, and the top seed material is even as high as 1,000 yuan per gram, and the current gold price is only Around RMB 300/g, it can be seen that the price of top seed is more than three times that of gold.

In addition, relative to Gaoguyu, the price of Xinyu is still not high, which is acceptable to ordinary collectors. The reporter learned from visits to the Jade Market in Shanghai, Suzhou and other places that at present, the selling price of small-sized new jade products is mostly under 30,000 yuan. This price range can be accepted by ordinary collectors, and most of the first-time collections of jade are hobbies. They are also starting from the purchase of small jade articles such as pendants, and the market demand is relatively large. The high and low prices of Gao Yuyu and Ming and Qing dynasty palace jade articles since the Shang and Zhou dynasties were sparse. At the same time, the prices were generally high, at a rate of several million tens of millions of yuan. This is far behind the average collectors. What makes the collectors retreat is that Gao Gaoyu’s counterfeiting and counterfeiting cases have repeatedly occurred, making collectors unprepared.

New jade collection has exquisite

Experts said that the collection of new jade must also pursue quality.

Mr. Gu, who is in charge of the “Direct Collections Network,” told reporters that the major factors that determine the value of jade are carvings and raw materials. Jade, chroma, oiliness, density, and purity are all important factors in determining the grade of jade materials, and these are relatively easy to distinguish for collectors with certain identification ability. However, the carving work depends on the level of the jade carving master. If the level of the jade carving master is ordinary, a good jade material can only make an ordinary handicraft, which will make the value of jade less, let alone enhance its quality.

What are the criteria for measuring the quality of jade? Mr. Gu summed it up into four aspects: new, extraordinary, absolute, and excellent.

The so-called new refers to innovation in the process. According to people from the “Changdao Collection”, it is necessary to choose jade collections with innovative breakthroughs in craftsmanship. Jade articles of traditional subject matter are more common in the market, and their expressions are similar, and they differ from the aesthetic tastes of modern people. It can thus be seen that selecting creative works has a strong flavor of the times and can be more acceptable to the market, and its appreciation space is naturally not small.

Oddities are related to material selection and ideas. This requires that jade carving masters should be good at the natural forms and materials of jade materials, and require unique and wonderful design ideas. Ingeniously surprising, there are thousands of colors of jade according to the size, color, texture and texture of jade materials. 10,000 kinds of jade, jade carving design must be applied to the arts in order to maximize the beauty of jade.

It is definitely a good material. If you use top grade seeds, the value is naturally high. The price gap between ordinary white jade seed material and top white jade seed material is huge, which also largely determines the value of jade. Therefore, as much as possible to select a good seed material, so that the quality of jade is more guaranteed.

Excellence refers to a high level of technology. Jade is not an instrument, so the level of technology is also critical. If a jade carving master holds a unique skill, others cannot imitate it. This type of jade is a natural product in the market, and the value of the jade is naturally higher than the market average.

Jade customization more personalized

The reporter learned that there is a jade custom model on the market, which not only meets the Tibetan individual's pursuit of personality, but also reduces intermediate links and reduces costs, thus allowing collectors to obtain greater benefits.

The so-called jade custom, in fact, is to provide raw materials for the collectors themselves or buy raw materials directly from the merchants' hands, and then let the jade carving masters design the jade articles with the characteristics of the times according to the collectors' ideas and the characteristics of the jade materials. This approach can not only avoid the common problem of lack of personality in the market, but also reduce the cost of excessive circulation, thus creating a unique collection of jade. Therefore, in such a process, collectors only need to pay for the cost of raw materials and jade carving technicians, and they can save a lot of money, such as staff salaries and shops' rents, compared with other forms such as shopping in jade counters or jade shops. And business profits.

So how much can you reduce the cost by customizing this method? Mr. Gu told reporters that under normal circumstances, the retailer’s price increase was more than 50%. For example, a piece of jade, in the straight collection Yupei custom price of 10,000 yuan, but retailers put it on the counter, the retail price became 15,000 yuan. If the investment in commercial areas, advertising packaging materials, etc. is more, the price increase will be higher.

In addition, customization can also be based on their own needs, so that jade carving designer with a personalized jade, while the collection, but also fully demonstrate the function of jade wear to play. So how do you customize it? The most feasible form at present is through cooperation with professional agencies. Mr. Gu told reporters that the quality of materials provided by professional organizations can be guaranteed. At the same time, skilled jade carving technicians can also be found to design and sculpt according to the collectors' own requirements, so that the texture of jade can be fully displayed and the collection value of jade can be enhanced. .