On May 30, 2009, the Beijing Poly Spring Auction Auction "Antique Treasures Day" has a "Qing Emperor Qianlong tooth ivory relief pond spring pen" prepared by the collectors, and finally to a high price of 224 million was a Collectors competing, the transaction price more than 3 times the valuation. It can be seen that the early art of dental carvings favored by the market.

Prices have risen year by year

Ivory carving art in our country has a long history, and jade carvings, enamel, carved lacquer and called crafts "four famous", and in the international art auction market scenery for many years.

Since the promulgation of the International Convention for the Conservation of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora since 1989, the ivory trade has been drastically reduced due to the worldwide ban on ivory trade, which has led to an increase in dental art prices.

Tooth carving has always been recognized as a high-end luxury goods, to determine the value of a carving art collection value, from the age, technology, texture, masters and other aspects to judge. In general, the older the tooth carving, the higher the value of its collection. Another important value of tooth sculpture is reflected in the carving process, the craft value of the crown carving will steadily increase.

The number of shots dropped

Since entering the new century, China has also promulgated a series of policy restrictions on ivory trading. Contemporary ivory products only a very small number of formal channels through the law can be legally traded, and most of the material for the mammoth teeth, and other smuggling channels and even travel abroad back to the ivory products are in violation of the legal risk.

2012 in the film partner to implement the national policy, began in the auction market restrictions on ivory transactions, both old and new dental carvings need to go through the State Forestry Administration, Cultural Relics Bureau and other official institutions certified as cultural relics, the side may be shot. In 2012, in the domestic auction market, tooth carving products on the number of sharp shot, then continued to decrease. In the spring of 2014, for example, only 47 fine dental carvings auction. The collection is bleak

What is the prospect of dental carvings? Tooth sculpture collection where to go from? From the recent dental carving secondary market rapid decline in the situation can be seen, only contains historical value and process value of cultural relics auction was worth collecting. And some senior collectors are mostly collection of Ming and Qing Dynasties of the dental carving Decoration, Wen play, really like tooth carving products lovers, you can focus on this part of the mainstream auction, which Qing Dynasty three generations of court products the fastest appreciation. At that time, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Emperor Qianlong three dynasties love art, in the palace there are autocratic ivory products workshop.

It is understood that when the palace carved artisans extraordinary art, in the characters, flowers and birds decorated most of the example of painting pen, color coloring also have a certain chapter, forming a gorgeous, slim, rich and elegant style. The collection of these works is extremely valuable.

In addition, based on the characteristics of ivory organic raw materials, the new warm, old crack, save more difficult, and the old tooth carving are handed over two or three hundred years, once saved improper product damage, the value will be greatly affected. Therefore, the goods of good Ming and Qing dynasties carved boutique even more valuable.

At present, the market Ming and Qing Dynasties dental carving boutique is very rare. Over the years, people in the folk collection market to see most of the contemporary dental carvings, the original these boutique are favored by collectors, but in recent years the state promulgated a series of policies and regulations to restrict ivory trade, and private private transactions are in violation of the law Of the risk, therefore, in the secondary market, the rising space is basically closed, which also hit the primary market demand for contemporary dental carving products. In a short period of time, contemporary dental carvings collection prospects are not optimistic.

Source: Shanghai Financial News