steanze wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:43 am
Youzi wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:41 am
The artist is a Research Level Senior Master, that's rank 5, the highest rank one can get besides the Honorific Titles to Master. Teapots made by Rank 5 Masters go for 2-3k minimum in China, for "No-name" artists.
Yes, these are the prices. It is important to distinguish however between more artistic creative designs made in small numbers, and standardized designs that such a craftsman could have done while working for F1.
Yeah, sure probably he was a "nobody" during the time he made that pot, but just because he is rank 5 now, suddenly the past works of the same artist just appreciates in price too. Kinda like the Early Works of famous painters. So as usual with these things the prices for named artist stuff just makes no sense for the Western Market, but in China teapot, just like housing and art, it's another investment scheme for the rich, which is the main reason for the sky high prices currently.