The woodcarving favorite improved

Collection on the market, a calligraphy reach tens of millions, or even billions, maybe a lot of people would not be surprised, but if hear that a woodcarving prices can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars, even hundreds of million, I believe there will be a lot of people surprised.

Chinese wood carving art originated in the Neolithic period, the Qin and Han dynasties process to take advantage of mature, to Tang Dynasty processes increasingly perfect, reached its peak period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Since ancient times, the carvings have a wide range of favorite crowd, and has been an important category in the collection on the market.

Art auction had just begun in the 1990s, wood carving art began to appear in the film field, although occasionally individual boutique can be sold for millions of dollars for high-priced, but with hundreds of thousands of yuan, such as painting and calligraphy, porcelain billion astronomical compared, woodcarving apparently been less, which is a long time to woodcarving is seen as the main reason for "unpopular" collections. However, this phenomenon began to emerge from last year completely changed. Since last year, with the record high price of painting and calligraphy, porcelain price bubble burst, had 'upset' woodcarving art began rapid warming, this year, some large domestic auction, many woodcarving auction price exceeded one million yuan mark the fine woodcarving even shoot a new record of 10 million yuan.

In this year's spring auction, a Ming Dynasty "the ichthyosaur the Marine Mammals sandalwood pen holder", although the film a pre-sale estimate of up to 12 million to 18 million yuan, but the final transaction price of 55.2 million yuan, refresh wood carving pen holder auction record . A small wood carving pen holder worth up to tens of millions of dollars, enough to illustrate the degree of wood carving works of art sought after. Addition to the art auction market, the price of wood carving art in the collection on the market folk surprisingly little rare wood carvings to sell hundreds of million no longer new.