In a blink of an eye, half of 2021 has passed, and the spring auction season in the first half of the year has also come to an end. As an investment indicator for high-end collections, how has the market performed this year? What will be the overall trend?

Jewelry and jade are widely favored by art investors

Artworks have strong cultural attributes and national characteristics and can be divided into many different categories. People in different regions also have different preferences. Currently, the five categories that art investors are most interested in are: Chinese calligraphy and painting, jewelry and jade, jade and stoneware, Western paintings and sculptures, and porcelain . Among them, the share of jewelry, jadeite and jadeite reached 31.80% .

Collection is the purchasing motivation for most people

Data shows that nearly 70% of high-net-worth art investors purchase art for the purpose of collection ; followed by appreciation and personal investment, each accounting for 57.7%. In addition, 19.2% of people buy for the purpose of communication and learning, hoping to improve their artistic and cultural accomplishment and aesthetic level, and 12.5% ​​buy for the purpose of giving as gifts.

Investors prefer jadeite collections priced between 1 million and 5 million yuan

The more expensive the collectibles, the greater the potential for appreciation, but it also requires a higher financial strength from the investor. It can be seen from the transaction situation of the high-end collection investment market in 2020 that jade collections priced between 1 million and 5 million are the most popular and are the choice of more than 60% of investors.

Pendants and beads are popular collectibles

From the sales of various categories in the high-end jade collection investment market in 2020, it can be seen that pendants/pendants, necklaces and bracelets accounted for more than half of the sales share.

Collection-level jade has extremely high requirements for its quality, water content, color, and workmanship . Jade bracelets are made of strict materials and are the first choice for raw stones. The bead necklace is composed of many round beads, and it is extremely rare to ensure that each bead has excellent quality and water content and uniform color overall. Jade pendants are the most common finished product styles on the market, and with a large base, the number of collectibles is also the largest.

Poly Auction Hong Kong's 36 million jade bracelet wins the Spring Auction

Judging from the latest results of the 2021 spring auction season, the jadeite item with the highest transaction price was a natural full-color Burmese jadeite bracelet from Poly Auction (Hong Kong), which was sold for HK$36 million (including commission) , which was also the highest price of this jewelry special session. It also jumped to second place in the history of Poly Auction (Hong Kong)'s jadeite bracelet auction prices.

Sotheby's, a long-established top auction house, continued to perform well, with a full green bracelet sold for HK$30.4 million and a full green bead necklace sold for HK$23.4 million, ranking second and third respectively among the top ten jadeite auctions in this quarter's spring auction; Beijing Poly also performed well, occupying four seats in the top ten.

Overall, although this spring auction is not as enthusiastic about collecting as the post-epidemic surge in the same period last year, compared with the spring auction in the same period of 2019, it is still rising steadily, and the increase is quite obvious.

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