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Rock Auctioneers was set up to fill the gap for Antiques collectors who wish to monetize their investment through an online Auction platform designed for local Hong Kong and overseas collectors.
Hong Kong has always been a hub for Western collectors to purchase authentic and usually rare and distinguished Chinese Works of Art in a safe and worry-free environment, Rock Auctioneers is no different in providing not only the above environmental benefits of Hong Kong but also the ability to maximize your sales by exposing it to not only Hong Kong buyers but to a worldwide audience. Rock Auctioneers are very proud to be working with a renowned online platform with record-breaking number of members who are actively buying and selling various categories of antiques. With this relationship, we are able to help buyers and sellers alike to find products and also maximize the auction sales respectively.
Since we are based in Hong Kong and as a participant in this antiquity industry, we are emphasizing our sales on Chinese Works of Art from various periods
We welcome you to view our sales items here or on live auctioneers where you as a buyer/collector will be able to bid and place preset prices on the system.
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History of Chinese Antiquities
The first Imperial Chinese dynasty recorded in Chinese History is most famous for building the Great Wall of China as they were more focused on defending and warfare than researching and making art. However, the most famous of all Chinese art was made as a "defence" for the Emperor's after life. The 8,000-strong Terracotta Army was created with immaculate details is now one of the largest antique collections of manmade army in the world was created during this time.
The Han dynasty was the first real dynasty that contributed to Chinese art and it was during this period that "artists" started to use porcelain to create what are now some of the world’s most collectible Chinese antiques. There are many types of "new" creations including precious and semi precious stones.
The Tang dynasty post Han carried on the Artistical journey for China. A new era in Chinese art and Chinese antiques. This dynasty created fine ceramics that were made using earth colors with the most famous Sancai ‘three-colour’ style of light earth brown, green and a creamy off-white. These stunning Chinese antiques were traded along the now reignited famous Silk Road and today, Chinese antique dealers consider these pieces to be some of the most desirable and traded amongst collectors.
The Song dynasty saw the development of the scholars, known for its achievements in terms of combining poetry, painting, and calligraphy, called the three perfections, into a shared art form, or as complementary activities. Painting during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) reached a new level of sophistication with further development of landscape painting. The emphasis laid upon landscape painting in the Song period was grounded in Chinese philosophy; a new social class of men who created a sense of aesthetics defining Chinese society and life in general but they were also skilled in the arts and many excelled in wood carving. Many of the Chinese antiques made during the Song dynasty focused on natural sentimental life cultures.
Coinciding with the European renaissance, the Ming dynasty was a period of new paradigm in the art world where alot of Asian antiques were manufactured including calligraphy scrolls, exquisite textiles, and vast landscape paintings, often frightening in their immensity. It was also the time where some of the most famous Chinese porcelain antiques were created – the most famous being the blue and white Ming pottery exported around the world in huge numbers with many still circulating in various auction houses. Many replicas has therefore been made in the modern era portraying to be antiques and to a trained eye, this can be picked up due to wrong color shades, aging, shapes of opening and foot.
This dynasty saw the opening of "modern" Chinese colors and art in pocelain and other potteries. Due to a safe environement and exquisite taste of the emperors, The Qing were very active in their trade with Europe and the Americas and their stunning oriental antiques, especially the porcelain, were exquisitely decorated with bright colours to appeal to these new markets. The most famous emperor being Qianlong as his reign is the longest and had made vast amount of vessels for use and gift. Now these relics have been sold and traded many times over and are amongst the most demanded but yet again replicas are made and fusioned into the authentic auction scene. If a famous auction house has sold the art work mistakenly for whatever reason, the work will seemlessly become an authentic piece.
Chinese Republic period (1912-1949)
The beginning of this period saw famous work done by ex palace artists working in freeform without any guidelines and policies, creating pieces that are now considered even more collectable than Dynasty wares. Reason being most of these works can be traced back to originator through pupils of the original artist. They are now worth similar to some Dynasty art works or even more. If a new collector were to build their collection, they can begin with this era. Much easier to view the fakes with the real deal.