Although more than ten years of development of the Chinese contemporary jade carving market, it is still in the primary stage of popularization and promotion, especially the popularity of small jade carvings and hand-carved jade carvings. The jade of China, which has accumulated thousands of years of jade culture, will surely enter the path of play and possession, and usher in the second glory of contemporary jade carving.

In the past few years, the collection and investment value of jade carvings with more art content and scarcity have become increasingly prominent. Based on the scarcity of raw materials and other factors, a few years later, utensils and jade carvings may disappear in the market. Now we are concerned about such things and can take the initiative.

In general, the market will continue to be active, but there will be some new trends and phenomena. For example, the slowdown of the circulation speed of small jade carvings and the gradual rise of utensil jade carvings.

Now the price of raw materials for white jade has been at historically high levels. The most common varieties on the market, such as brands and parts, are frequently priced at several hundred thousand yuan, which has caused considerable pressure on many jade carving studios. Take Yupu as an example, first spend hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy blocks, then spend two months designing and making them, and finally spend five or six months to sell the brand - don't worry, The price is certainly low, because the cost of raw materials and labor costs, artistic added value, and market risk are all in it.

In the first two years, the price of more than 100,000 yuan brand, the best selling pieces, but now the price of jade carving work has been very few, brand, basically start at 200,000 yuan. An order of magnitude higher than ever. The jade carvings below 100,000 yuan are often not very good. Some buyers have very high demands on the quality of raw materials, and they will not pay much attention to such jade carvings.

Not only is the white jade, the price of jade is also at historically high levels. Many studios and workshops that make jadeite sell the finished products and want to continue processing the raw materials, but they cannot find the right material, not the price is too high. The quality of the material is not good.

All the above phenomena indicate that the future market trend of small jade carving products is quietly undergoing some changes under the surface of prosperity. Of course, because of the increase in the price of raw materials and the increase in financial pressure, it is absolutely impossible for jade carving products to be sluggish, but small jade carving products will gradually slow down as the market develops.

The quiet changes in the market trend of jade carvings are not only due to the pressure of raw materials and funds, but also depend on the aesthetic orientation and direction of purchase of new capital.

Various kinds of news show that gold **, represented by banks, is increasingly focusing on contemporary jade carving art. Of course, banks are not interested in art. They are only interested in the appreciation of capital. The purpose of the gold ** is to take the contemporary jade carving art as a development direction of future special accounts. There have been many local banks conducting research on this, and some banks are already planning to set up related businesses. It is understood that the current popular practice is to falsify jade carving artwork, that is, to establish a jade carving artwork investment **, to purchase a certain amount of jade carving as a portfolio of the **, and then like stocks and bonds** This is divided into a number of shares, which are subscribed by investors.

In the stock market, institutional investors have a huge directional effect on retail investors. What kinds of works that these institutional investors buy in the jade carving market will also be available to the market after various types of art investment have been established. Personal buyers in China have a big impact. Therefore, to a certain extent, the jade carving market in the future will be based on these institutional investors. As far as the current situation is concerned, these institutional investors seem to have little interest in brands and items. They prefer to have a certain amount of body, higher artistic content and difficulty in production, and more scarce utensil jade sculptures.

There is also a phenomenon worthy of attention is that, in addition to gold, industrial capital in recent years, the purchasing power of the jade carving market continues to increase, influence and appeal is also growing. The driving force behind the pursuit of industrial capital for jade carving art comes from the increasing attention of local governments to the development of local cultural undertakings and the pursuit of their own corporate culture after the development and expansion of private enterprises. Jade carvings purchased from industrial capital are often used to enrich museum collections and displays of various public and private museums, memorial halls, and art galleries. Since it is a museum collection, the grade of the collection is very important because it represents the level and aesthetic level of the museum. Coincidentally, industrial capital also favors jade artifacts that are inherently more expensive than brands and pieces.

Why is gold and industrial capital both aiming at utensil jade sculptures? The reason is simple: higher art content, processing difficulty and undervalued prices. Take Liu Zhaoguo’s “Big Jasper Life Bottle” as an example. This jasper bottle is the work of Liu Chaoguo, a master of Chinese arts and crafts. It is crafted from a single block of jasper material. It takes two years and it is full of complicated patterns. Atmosphere, there is a relic of the Qianlong Jade Carving, is a typical Beijing school jade carving works. This jasper bottle has a height of more than 50 centimeters and the production cycle lasts two years. At present, the production cycle of jade cards and accessories is generally one to two months. Based on this calculation, Liu Chaoguo can do more than 20 jade cards or pieces at the time of doing this jade bottle. Now the price of Yupai is often 200,000 yuan to start. Some brands can sell 70,800,000 yuan, and this jasper bottle is worth more than 2 million yuan. With such a simple calculation, it can be seen that the value of this jasper bottle is obviously underestimated. This is not to take into account the risk of making large vessels, the difficulty of selecting materials, and the difficulty of designing ideas.

There are many examples that can explain the underestimation of the value of utensil jade sculptures. For example, the jade pot made by Majin Guigui, a master craftsman of Chinese art and crafts, is obviously undervalued compared with the teapot made by the purple sand masters of the arts and crafts industry. Ma Jingui's wrong gold embeded gems and jade pots were auctioned at prices of more than 100,000 yuan and more than 300,000 yuan. Compared with Zisha pots with tens of millions of yuan worth of Zi Jinghai’s Gu Jingzhou auction, even other purple sand masters, Lu Yichen The pot auction price also reached 560,000 yuan, He Daohong's pot also photographed more than 100 million, while the production cost of Ma Jingui Yu pot is far from comparable to these teapots.

Although Hetian jade's raw materials are expensive, they are more precious than raw materials. They are the artist's creativity and exquisite craftsmanship. Taking thin tire containers as an example, Liu Chaoguo is the best person to do thin tires now, but he is over 60 years old this year, and his heart is not very good. He has placed several stents. The number of works is not large, but the new generation of Among the famous jade carving masters, there is no one who can reach the level of Liu Chao State in all aspects. It is said that there are less raw materials and expensive raw materials. There are fewer raw materials that can be used as utensils. However, if you find raw materials, how can you find a reassuring jade carving master to do it? This is a more worrying issue than raw materials.

Looking at the development history of jade carving art in the past 500 years, it is not difficult to find that the palace jade carving art is based on the craftsmanship of large-scale utensils. Because the emperor plays jade, he rarely plays with small pieces, and large utensils can better reflect the royal style. Among them, Qianlong emperor is the most. In the early years of the Beijing Jade Carving Factory, a piece of material was brought in. The first thing to consider was to do utensils or characters. In the end, they would consider doing things like jade cards. Since the development of modern jade carvings, today, utensils and jade carvings have gradually been taken seriously. This is also due to the inheritance of culture and is consistent with the development of jade carving art.