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Advice on selling a valuable painting

  • 20-02-2008 2:48pm
    #1
    Zion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭


    I wonder could someone point me some directions regarding selling an old chinese porcelain painting. I need to have some professonal valuation of the painting as according to my father it is worth more than €60,000 :eek: I guess the best way to sell it would be through auction but I don't even know where to start.

    Suggestions much appreciated :)


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  • #2
    ODD-JOB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 968 ✭✭✭ODD-JOB


    Thats fantastic !
    Any chance of seeing a pic of the porcelain plaque ?

    if it is seriously rare then the auction market is the way to go.
    You would definately have to sell it on the London market.
    The amount of people in ireland that collect Chinese porcelain is tiny, and the amount of Chinese collectors with 60K+ to spend is even more limited !!
    I know because I collect Oriental-wares myself :)

    the only other thing is the amount of time to get payment after auction.
    it usually takes 3 weeks or so for payments to be made !
    That is quite standard procedure.
    So if you were in a hurry for the money , you'd have to pack it up and get yourself over to Bond Street in London. Do the rounds there.

    It's a bit cut-throat the antiques business ,... my advice is to do your homework on the painting. Make sure you have a reasonable knowledge of your piece. You dont want to be "rinsed out" by a dealer that "see's you coming" !!

    The market is quite good for Oriental porcelain as far as i know.
    Best of luck with it !


  • #3
    Zion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Zion


    Thanks for the reply ODD-JOB. Here is the painting.

    IMG_7003s.JPG

    Don't know can you say it is seriously rare as it was produced by few retired craftmen around 1960. They made only two and one of them is stored in Beijin exhibition hall.

    We're not in a rush of selling it at all :)


  • #4
    ODD-JOB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 968 ✭✭✭ODD-JOB


    Lovely , its much bigger than i expected !
    I didnt realise it was contemporary , it's outside my area I'm afraid ! It appears to be painted in a late Qing style.

    You would be aswell to send detailed images to Christies , Sotheby's , for a free valuation on the auction market price.

    Make sure to include all possible details, artists/craftsmen , details of the other example in Bejing , dimensions etc. and take a photo of the reverse of the painting.
    It is probably a carved rosewood or cherrywood frame, and i imagine it may be covering the reverse of the porcelain plaque, if so then leave it as it is.

    The London auction houses are very quick to reply to something they feel is very interesting ! ,... but they take ages to reply if they are not. sometimes they dont reply at all.
    Its a free service , so you've nothing to lose.

    Best of luck with it :)


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