Investment on Ming & Qing-style Furniture 相关搜索: furniture

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According to the analysis of Mr. Tian Jiaqing, the famous contemporary relic collector, it is twenty years ago that the collection of Ming & Qing dynasty furniture began to go hot. From the perspective of investment, the revaluational potential is different between Ming and Qing furniture. The difference can be generally divided into three categories.
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There are two kinds of furniture with the most potential of revaluation. One is the Ming-style furniture made under the guidance of literaries in Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty, mostly made in yellow rosewood. Another is the Qing-style palace furniture which are directly supervised by the emporers,  guided by the palace artist and made by the best carpenters in the Forbidden City during the three generations of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, mostly made in red sandlewood. In the overseas auction market, the price of such a piece of furniture can easily go up to RMB six to seven million, while it might be worth only several hundreds RMB two decades ago.
' a. g% g( c' K" _It is estimated that the two kinds of furniture left today number no more than 10,000. From the perspective of investment, although the price today is very high, the above-mentioned two kinds of furniture has the most tremendous room for revaluation with little risk. But the precaution is that it must be well-kept gem. The biggest problem faced by the collectors today is the existence of too much fakement. Those who know little about Ming & Qing-style furniture but are affordable to make investment in this area, had better choose those reputable auction house, so as to guarantee the security of investment.
* p  X0 t; q! `' B. |4 aThere is also a way to make investment for those who are interested in Ming & Qing-style furniture but do not have much money. Why not collect the folk furniture of Ming & Qing dynasty for its lower price and higher extent of authentication.
2 V) K- a" V; E/ a; o# QThe price of these furniture is not too much higher than that of the modern furniture, but their room for revaluation is relatively smaller.

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The value may increase several thousands RMB for ten years’ maintainence. The furniture are mostly made in soft wood material like elm, walnut and basswood. Those made in southern Yangtse rive are of high artistic value, those made in Shangxi are modeled from the palace style in Beijing, while those in Guangdong are influenced by the western style. It has undoubtedly brought vast choices for those collectors with artistic appreciation.