Ms. Zhao from Anhui took a pipe that was said to have been passed to Beijing by her ancestors to identify its authenticity, age and value. After identification, the pipe is made of common wood branches, copper and tin, and the tube holder is covered with agate for decades, with a market value of about 2000 yuan. But before that, Zhao Nvshi sent the pipe to an auction company in Shanghai and Anhui. She said that the auction company evaluated it at a high price of130,000 yuan and 6 million yuan respectively. According to the rules of the auction company, it is necessary to pay 1% of the estimated price as their preliminary operating expenses before the auction. For Ms. Zhao of the average family, after bargaining, the operation fee is still a big expense. Think about it and worry about whether the valuation of the auction company will be too low. It doesn't matter if the money is paid. Don't let the auction company sell the treasures handed down from their family at a low price, it will be a big loss. After repeated discussions with my family, I decided to go to Beijing to find an authoritative appraisal agency for appraisal. It is obvious from Zhao Nvshi's expression before the appraisal that her excitement was beyond words, as if she had won a huge lottery ticket, and she kept talking about her future money plan. However, after such appraisal, the huge appraisal contrast has caused a great sense of loss and shock to Zhao Nvshi. It seems that the huge sum of money that has been put into her pocket has been robbed overnight for a long time, and it is impossible to face the blow of reality. Anger and resentment arose, and she was so excited that she ignored the real purpose of the appraisal. The cruelty of the market, without a correct and good attitude and the basic judgment ability of things and articles, can be described as how sad the collection is? This also reflects the chaos in the development of the auction industry.
China's Auction Law condones and protects counterfeiting, which is the root of chaos. Therefore, some auction companies only accept money, knowing that it is fake, and also describe waste products with low or even no value as genuine products and national treasures, which is a common behavior in the chaotic art auction market. This phenomenon can be seen everywhere.
In addition, the disobedience of many expert appraisers is also rooted in the attitudes of three special Tibetan friends: the first is that some Tibetan friends are arrogant, they are often highly educated, and even elites and experts in a certain industry have read many books, thinking that they know all about the national treasures introduced in the book and can't listen to the opinions of expert appraisers. The second category is that some collectors specialize in collecting high-grade rare treasures, which are millions or even tens of millions of "national treasures" at once. If experts say that their collections are fake, they will immediately turn against each other and even hate them, waiting for revenge. The third category is the bottom collectors who expect to change their fate through collection. Their collections were either purchased by themselves or passed down from family. I expect too much from my collection and hope to get rich overnight. When the collection was identified as a fake, they lost their sober and rational minds and made crazy personal attacks on the experts.
Mr. Yang, an expert on bronzes and miscellaneous treasures, said that the ultimate goal of art collection should not lie in the price of the collection, but should be to find the joy of collection from the collection. With a speculative mentality, I dream of making money all day. Once the real value of the collection is far from the expected value, I will make extreme language and behavior reactions. This kind of collection psychology is called "pathological collection". In order to avoid the morbid psychology of collecting, Yang put forward nine proverbs for Tibetan friends: study hard, be careful to make friends, and be normal, specifically, 1. Study hard. Art collection is a science, which requires Tibetans not only to have rich historical and cultural knowledge, but also to have natural science knowledge such as logic, chemistry and biology. As the saying goes, if you study well, you will become an official. Only by continuous learning can you move from blind ignorance to a correct understanding of art collection. Be careful when making friends. In the art collection circle, you must make friends taller than yourself to learn something; If you only make fair-weather friends, the chances of being cheated will greatly increase, because it is often such friends who sell fake goods. 3. Normal mentality. This is the most precious but also the most difficult mentality in art collection. Only by getting rid of impetuousness and holding a normal mind can we truly appreciate the fun of collection, instead of taking collection as a kind of pressure, and we can constantly learn artistic knowledge from collection and improve cultural taste. In the current era of national collection, a normal mind is of great benefit to improving the overall cultural accomplishment and artistic appreciation of the Chinese nation, which is also the ultimate significance of art collection.