Qingdao Collection Circled Teapot Price 40% Master Potter Hard to Find

The purple sand storm that struck suddenly last year made the teapot unfavorable. Nowadays, under the backdrop of a booming market for collectibles, the teapot has not only come out of this fog, but has also been transformed into a state of rapid development. Recently, the reporter visited the Zisha pot market in the island city and found that, with a one-year estimate, the price of ordinary clay pot works rose by about 40%, while the high-end teapot works far exceeded this increase. In particular, master works have now reached the point where it is difficult to find a pot.

A 40% increase in Spring Festival

After the year, the citizen Mr. Liu intended to buy a purple teapot worth RMB 1800 in the cultural market. He could turn a large circle and could hardly find a teapot less than RMB 100.

“The teapot that is less than RMB 100 is definitely a bad pot. The mold pot made from the purple clay that is the worst at the moment is worth more than one hundred yuan.” The Yan boss of Heyuan Hall frankly stated that only the same master made it before and after the Spring Festival. The price of the same teapot rose by 34%. He pointed to a pale yellow teapot in his hand and said that the author of the pot was an assistant craftsman. He took the goods price around 3,000 yuan before the Spring Festival, and now he got 4000. Yuan, and in the most recent year, the increase in the work of arts and craftsmen has reached more than 50%, and masters’ works have doubled in value. Ding Bo has been operating the Yixing teapot on Changle Road for more than a decade. He also told reporters that for more than a decade, the price of teapot has been rising, but the rate of increase has accelerated in recent years, especially last year. Ordinary gains are all around 40%, and the degree of attention is getting higher and higher. “When you first arrived in Qingdao, the pot was cheap, but everyone did not recognize it; now it is expensive, and collections, gifts, and even investment In particular, the upsurge of Pu'er tea is the time for Zishahu to become famous."

Collection circle hot teapot

As Ding Bo said, the skyrocketing price of Zishahu has a direct relationship with supply and demand. The first is rising costs. Yixing local sales of mud habits calculated according to bundles, a bundle of 30 pounds. Yan Bo told reporters that the price of a bundle of common purple clay was a couple of hundred dollars a few years ago, and now it has more than tripled. Prices of high-grade mud have generally risen five to six times or even higher in recent years. Before 2000, the high-grade mud at Huanglong Mine cost a few thousand yuan and a ton, and now it costs tens to tens of thousands of yuan. The other is the rise in labor costs. Back in 2008, a master took a picture on the teapot and charged 200 yuan. Now it costs 3,000 yuan. If the master of the pot is promoted to a level, his work worth at least two or four times.

In terms of demand, with the development of economy, there are more and more people who have spare cash. People who like to drink tea and who like to collect gradually pay attention to the teapot. In Heyuan Hall, Yan Bo introduced the reporters to two regular customers in the store. They are in their 30s and have been playing in Zisha for five or six years. Yan boss said that the owner who specializes in teapots is not alone. Some regular customers often go to the store to discuss teapots. Behind each frequent guest is a circle of teapots. In his opinion, in recent years, there have been significant expansions in the collection of teapots. Even in Qingdao, where the atmosphere of the Zishahu collection is not good, many hundreds of collectors have emerged. As for the group of dozens of more than a few hundred pots, there are even more.

The collector, Mr. Li, said that the heat of health nowadays is also a major cause of hot teapots. Coupled with the teapot itself carries many historical and cultural elements, the current heat is still reasonable.

It is best to collect light investment

With the flourishing of the teapot market, some examples of rich collections of master craftsmen have been exposed. Since the value of a small clay teapot can be increased by several dozen times, some investors are inevitably struggling. However, from the point of view of dealers and collectors in contact with reporters, even in the increasingly popular market, there are not many people who use teapots as pure investment products.

According to Mr. Lin, a senior collector of Daocheng, the investor circle of Zi Sha Hu is still too small. Compared with the large and mature private trading market like stamps, it is not a public investment product and the price is not constantly changing. “Now Players mainly communicate and trade through the online trading platform. With the gradual improvement of this platform, Zishahu's circulation is even higher, and the value of collection and investment is more easily realized, and the fluctuation of prices is slightly larger.”

However, many people in the industry also mentioned that the appreciation space of the teapot is mainly concentrated in famous pots. “After all, the purple sand has scarcity, and the teapot has its own artistic value.” said Ding Bo, who specializes in Yixing teapot. “As the previous generation of master craftsmen gradually grow old, the number of their pots is decreasing, and there is an increase in market demand. No reduction will lead to a further increase in prices.” At the same time, Ding boss also suggested that the public, the Zi Sha Hu collection subject to personal preferences, as long as they like it. If it is hard to be an investment and hopes to have a large room for appreciation, then the best starting point is not lower than that of a national-level technician, because the current market pricing is very much focused on the potter's job title.

Conclusion

True or False

The reporter visited the island city collectibles market for a week, and what he looked at in the collectibles market was the two words—deep! In the situation where speculators have stepped in and stirred up a haze, the original collectibles market became even more difficult to distinguish, unpredictable, and unpredictable. In the stock market, after hot topic themes are hype, the “snacks” are always the most vulnerable small retail investors. The real initiators have already taken home and are willing to count the money. Therefore, the same reason can be proved, if you are an ordinary citizen, like the collection to follow their own way to continue collection, do not follow the speculation, so that "speculation" is not an eclipse to rice; do not like the collection also do not force themselves "Into the water," Taobao, looking to preserve value, but eventually fell to a careless "dropped into drowning."