Who makes the teapot in Yixing better? Don't be vain

Friend: Don't bother. Can the masters make pots and sell them now? Just to cut the ribbon and mention a few words on the plaque has already rolled up a net income of 30,000 yuan. Why make a pot? Many people have some masterpieces in their hands, and it is not easy for them or their families to issue certificates. Please bring it with an acquaintance, and the verification fee and certificate shall not be less than 30,000 yuan. I've heard many examples of this, and I've seen a few with my own eyes. Give me one or two examples; In order to avoid being accused of libel, I remain anonymous. First, in 2006, a master of Wang Xing (now a master of arts and crafts in Jiangsu Province, from a purple sand family) came to a tea house in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province to hold a pot exhibition, and a friend of mine took a' floating stone pot' with his seal to get the certificate. He first asked the origin of the pot and how much it cost when he bought it. My friend told me truthfully that as soon as he heard that the price he bought was only 1000 yuan, he immediately denied that the pot was fake, and immediately asked his assistant to take out a seal the same as the bottom payment and print it on paper with inkpad for comparison. In fact, the difference is similar, but the lines printed on the paper are a little thinner. To tell the truth, how can covering on paper be consistent with covering on mud? In addition, pottery must be baked at high temperature. Can it be exactly the same? He also said that his pot sold for tens of thousands of yuan that year, even if it was made by his son, it was not lower than this price. What a big joke. He didn't think about what his job title was; He didn't think about how big his spending power was; He didn't ask my friend about his family at that time. If my friend told him the background, I think he would say that he made the pot himself. The real truth is that my friend's father was a senior official in Zhongshan City in the early 1990s. This pot was given to my friend's father by a district head in Yixing 1300 yuan. It happened on 1993. This master should be an artist and craftsman in Yixing. I'm afraid the price of Master Gu Jingzhou's pot in the late 1980s and early 1990s won't be 10,000 yuan! In addition, the master also exhibited and sold nearly 200 teapots, all of which were autographed on rice paper as evidence, but all the teapots were filled in the same year and all of them were handmade. So I took two pots made by him, the small one was a 80 ml horizontal pot, and the big one was blown into a decorative pot worth hundreds of thousands by Zhongshan TV. I asked him how long it would take to make small pots and cauldrons; And I replied,' two working days for the small pot (eight hours) and 60 working days for the big pot (the big pot has good technology, complex shape and huge size). Let me ask again: in that case, can you make nearly 200 pots a year? There is nothing to answer. The owner of the teahouse quickly squared up and said it was time to eat, so he pulled the master in. The second example: In 2007, a private jade pot was sold in Zhongshan, with a transaction price of six figures. This pot has pictures from Xu Xiutang's book Purple Sand in China, which is the work of the late artist Gao Haigeng. The owner of the pot is an old revolutionary in his 70 s; 1979 When he went to Shanghai on business, the clerk at Nanjing Road Department Store saw that he couldn't afford it, so he bought it in a fit of pique. The price of this pot is 37.50 yuan; The old revolution (Guangdong Dongjiang column background) had a monthly salary of around 80 yuan. In 2008, a person from Taiwan Province province took a fancy to this pot, but asked Gao's descendants to issue a certificate before the deal was made. It is said that the certification fee (including agency fee) is six figures before the transaction can be made. I didn't ask the new owner of the pot. After all, it's a trade secret, and people won't say it casually.

Now some masters don't make their own pots, but for the benefit of themselves, authors and sellers, they use their own seals to cover the pots made by their collaborators. It is an open secret that consumers are cheated. So I advise you: as long as the sand quality of the pot is good, the shape is beautiful and reasonable, it is in line with your own mind and the price is suitable for your purchasing power. Especially some old pots, you don't have to deliberately pursue whether they are original. What if you happen to meet a famous pot? For example, an unknown civilian and a rich celebrity are auctioning Gu Jingzhou's early original works. Can you guess the result is the same?

If you want to buy a real pot made of raw ore purple sand, just go to a little-known workshop in Yixing City, even if it is a 80 ml horizontal pot, it is definitely not lower than 300 yuan. In Xiguan Antique City, Guangzhou, there is a shop that specializes in old and new pots of raw ore purple sand, which is basically iron price. If you want to bargain, there is no way. The stall owner doesn't want to talk to you, unlike other places, where you have to buy it. As the saying goes: it's really not fake, and it's really not much better.