Jade Hetian jade price and value

High-end jade and Hetian jade are expensive, but their treatment at the international level is very different. This is mainly due to the different cultures and materials of the two. The prices of Hetian jade and jadeite in the international market reflect two different aspects of value.

"The emerald hype is going to be polarized," said one jade expert. The high-end prices are unattainable, while the low-end ones are mixed and misunderstood. Yu Dejun, manager of Urumqi Jade Jewelry Co., Ltd. believes that Hetian jade has also begun to appear polarized since 2010, and he has gone through the same market history as Jade. However, Hsu Dejun believes that Hetian Yu does not face the same bubble crisis as jadeite jade: Compared with jadeite, the price of good Hetian jade is only over 100 million yuan, and the quality of Hetian jade of 500,000-600,000 yuan is already high, 100,000 yuan. Around Yuan can also buy a good Hetian jade; and high-end jadeite prices can be up to 10 million yuan.

“The market price is still low, which has been demonstrated by the fact that some of the investors in the collection have turned their funds from jade jewelry to Hetian jade – the profit space of jade has gradually become smaller”, but Xing Dejun emphasized that “if the Hetian jade high-end market The threshold for the overall price to enter the tens of millions of yuan is worth paying attention to."

It has been revealed that, like jadeite, Hetian jade market has successively entered large amounts of funds. Especially three years ago, many "Wenzhou real estate speculators" began targeting Hetian jade. These pervasive investors have both vision and team spirit. They only accept good materials, either directly to the mines to purchase raw materials, or invest in mining materials themselves. This kind of funding of hundreds of billions of dollars has accumulated a lot of sources. In addition, investors from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai have also stepped in. Fortunately, they have not yet been able to monopolize the raw materials.

Although Jadeite’s profit margin may be limited, it is circulated internationally as a hard currency. In the auction market transaction data that reporters can find, the price of nearly 100 pieces of jadeite is higher than 10 million yuan, except for the foreign auction market. Astronomical auctions of sky-high prices have frequently appeared at art and jewellery auctions held in Hong Kong, China each year.

However, Shen Yumei, deputy manager of the Guangzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Head Office, found that it was difficult to see modern Hetian jade and Hetian jade stones on the overseas art event. Only the ancient Hetian jade antiques appeared in the international auction market, most of which were courts of the Qing Dynasty. Hetian jade artifacts; jade jewelry, rubies, sapphire, etc. are common in overseas jewelry exhibitions, and Hetian jade is rarely seen. It is understood that most of the buyers of the collection and investment Hetian jade come from China, Japan, South Korea and other countries affected by Confucian culture.

Shen Yumei analysis, Hetian Yu and Jade in the international market price reflects two different aspects of the value. Hetian jade antiques are highly sought after and expensive, and the material value of jade is just one of the factors. What's more important is that it contains the historical value and cultural relics brought by Chinese ancient jade culture and the “aura” of Qing Dynasty palace supplies. value.

As a gemstone material, the Western accessories pursued a bright eye, and the reserved Hetian Baiyu did not meet their aesthetic standards. Therefore, international collectors did not classify Hetianyu as a jewel. However, the price of the brilliant and bright jade embodies its value as a jewel.

She believes that the collection of Hetian jade is more important than the recognition and understanding of traditional culture, and Jade because of the decorative aesthetic. With the attention and understanding of traditional culture of collectors, the value and price of Hetian jade will be further reflected. "Hetian Yu has to go to the international market and it is difficult to achieve in recent years, but the long-term line can be achieved."

There are jadeite traders revealed that there have been investors investing a lot of money to speculate on the type of glass that has been hoarded (a variety of jade). Shen Yongmei believes that although it cannot deny that the market has increased due to the entry of hot money, the resource scarcity of high-end jadeite and Hetian jade determines that it must be worthwhile in the long run.

However, she still suggests that collectors should use traditional aesthetic views “a kind of nonferrous metals” as a reference when collecting jadeite jade, because the aesthetic direction of the market may sometimes be a stage phenomenon, and it may be more risky to chase the culture.

In the situation of Hetian jade market rose, the market also has losses. Especially in the past two years, Hetian Yu was once caught up in the misunderstanding of “fried skin,” causing many investors to “lose hands and feet”, mainly because they “heavy things are not heavy”.

“Peanut” is the popular name in the industry. It refers to the colored outer skin formed by the infiltration of minerals in the water after Hetian jade seeds soaked in the river water for thousands of years. Hetian jade seeds The bottom material under the material "skin" is called "meat". Fortunately, the German army explained that the better the skin color and Hetian jade, the worse the majority of meat quality, and good "skin" good "meat" extremely rare. In addition, over-heavy skin can also lead to cheating, taking fake "skins" that unscrupulous merchants do well, and treating them as "skins", or mistakenly thinking that they have "skins".

Fortunately, the German army recommended that working-class collectors are best positioned to purchase their own accessories, and actually enter the collection at least 100,000 yuan/piece as the starting price.

Knowledgeable collectors can collect raw materials, because the original stone is very different inside and outside, requires professional knowledge to judge; do not know the best collection of Hetian jade finished products, because of its consistent inside and outside, lower risk. Like other types of art, there is little room for growth in low-end varieties.