Not long ago, at the auction of porcelain jewellery and jade handicrafts held in Shizhuzhai, the turnover rate of porcelain was only 30%, and the highest single-handed sales did not exceed 600,000 yuan. Confucius Temple antique city and the Taobao market, some senior players of porcelain recently admitted to today’s China Daily News reporter: Many porcelain collectors prefer to choose Beijing, Shanghai, Wuxi, Zhengzhou and other places to sell big money.

It has been revealed that compared with Shanghai and Beijing, Nanjing has a difference of about 10 times in the price of the same auction item. Even in Wuxi, it is 3 times higher than Nanjing. A Ming Dynasty porcelain cup collected by a collector in Nanjing had a starting price of 20,000 yuan in Wuxi and no one in Nanjing at 200 yuan. The starting price of a porcelain plate in Beijing is 250-300,000, but only 10,000 in Nanjing. The name of a clay figure celadon in the Songtian Lake Tianyao was set at 80,000 yuan at the Wuxi Zhongshan Wenhai Auction Company, and only 2,000 yuan at Nanjing.

The number of auctions held varies widely. Nanjing holds auctions about 2-3 times a year. In Beijing, only one Red Sun auction company has held auctions for 12 times. Although it is a small auction, the size of the auction can be compared with that of a large Nanjing auction.

Isn't there high-grade porcelain in Nanjing? The experts clearly denied that as the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and the birthplace of the Six Dynasties celadon, Nanjing had a large quantity of high-grade porcelain, but the auction price and the market transaction price were not so high that the high-end collections were lost to the field. A lot of collectors analyzed the reasons for this. First, the porcelains auctioned on the auction houses were mostly backlogs for many years. It was difficult to see fine items such as Guanyao at some auctions in Nanjing. In addition, the threshold of the auction house in Nanjing was too high, and the price of the porcelain sent by the people in Nanjing was too low, which seriously hurt the enthusiasm of collectors. At the same time, investors in Nanjing and other cities have different views on Nanjing porcelain. When foreign buyers heard that the collection came from Nanjing, they immediately saw that the Confucius Temple's porcelain was even better. This virtually added value to the auction, and Nanjing buyers turned a blind eye to the value of Nanjing's porcelain. The porcelain of Nanjing was not only favored by foreign investors, but also recognized and welcomed by foreign auction companies. The purchase price was several times higher than that of Nanjing. In addition, antique training can be seen everywhere in Beijing, which greatly improves the knowledge and ability of investors and collectors in antiques. There are few professional training courses in Nanjing.

Experts from the Jiangsu Provincial Collection Association generally believe that the ancient Nanjing porcelain source has a very high grade. The official kiln porcelain was found in Nanjing during the Three Kingdoms Period. Later, the varieties developed into the blue and white flowers, the bright red glaze, the clear glaze, and the clear pastels. These folks in Nanjing are all hidden, and they are estimated to be over a million like Minghongli. According to estimates of experts, there are no less than 200,000 non-governmental porcelain items in porcelain in Nanjing and more than 100,000 in China, which is much higher than in neighboring provinces and cities. After 2000, the annual increase in investment in private ceramics in Nanjing is at 20. %the above. Therefore, Nanjing, as an important birthplace of ancient Chinese porcelain, is now, for investors, a gold mine urgently to be mined.