sooooooo.... for $3000 you're saying this is a steal??Walter White wrote:An art dealer friend in Indonesia dealt in hand-painted signage and movie posters. He put them up in a gallery in Ubud where they sold at a surprising pace and for prices that seemed absurd to me. My cousin came to visit us in Cambodia and spent much of her time photographing hand painted signs, which she prominently featured in one of her gallery shows in Los Angeles.
Too bad these signs are being replaced by cheap printing and will become extinct in a few more years.
Hand-painted Countryside Sign - Reduced Price
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No ....all "art" is subjective, what any sign is worth is all someone is willing to pay for it....tuk-tukfish wrote:sooooooo.... for $3000 you're saying this is a steal??Walter White wrote:An art dealer friend in Indonesia dealt in hand-painted signage and movie posters. He put them up in a gallery in Ubud where they sold at a surprising pace and for prices that seemed absurd to me. My cousin came to visit us in Cambodia and spent much of her time photographing hand painted signs, which she prominently featured in one of her gallery shows in Los Angeles.
Too bad these signs are being replaced by cheap printing and will become extinct in a few more years.
The pieces offered are part of local history, pieces that will be thrown away unless someone appreciates them for what they are.
Personally ....I like the "metal makers " sign .....alas I am not back for a while....
Let me qualify "what someone is willing to pay for it"
Last October ...at an auction conducted by Adams Dublin...in Slane Castle...a five clawed Imperial dragon dish with 2 cracks
was estimated at Euro 1000-Euro 1500.....it made Euro 310,000....Wow...
Earlier this month the same dish ( 9inches wide ...2 cracks ) sold in Hong Kong made .....
$2.4 .....million....
MICHAEL PARSONS
A CRACKED Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain dish – from a house in Northern Ireland and first valued at just €1,200 – sold at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong yesterday for €1.8 million.
But only five months ago, the same dish – which has two hairline cracks – was sold at an Adam’s auction in Slane Castle, Co Meath, for €310,000, a figure then regarded as phenomenal and more than 100 times the estimate. The original owners – a family in Co Derry – were said at the time to be “delighted” with that price.
The dish – which measures just 10 inches in diameter – was bought by a specialist dealer in London, who then consigned it to Sotheby’s for yesterday’s sale.
Sotheby’s described the lot as a 15th-century “magnificent blue and white ‘dragon’ dish” and assigned it an estimate of between HK$10 million and HK$15 million. However the buyer paid HK$18.8 million (€1.8 million).
Commenting on the resale of the dish, which has leapt six-fold in value since the auction at Slane Castle last October, James O’Halloran, managing director of Adam’s in Dublin, said it was “exceptionally difficult to anticipate what people will pay for Chinese porcelain”.
The dish was made at the royal kilns of Jingdezhen in the reign of the Emperor Xuande (1426-1435) and is decorated with an image of a five-clawed dragon – a symbol of imperial power. It is extremely rare. The only other known example is a smaller version in a museum in Taipei – the capital of Taiwan. The dish was brought home by a member of a Co Derry family who served with the British army in China during the late Victorian colonial era.
Last October ...at an auction conducted by Adams Dublin...in Slane Castle...a five clawed Imperial dragon dish with 2 cracks
was estimated at Euro 1000-Euro 1500.....it made Euro 310,000....Wow...
Earlier this month the same dish ( 9inches wide ...2 cracks ) sold in Hong Kong made .....
$2.4 .....million....
MICHAEL PARSONS
A CRACKED Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain dish – from a house in Northern Ireland and first valued at just €1,200 – sold at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong yesterday for €1.8 million.
But only five months ago, the same dish – which has two hairline cracks – was sold at an Adam’s auction in Slane Castle, Co Meath, for €310,000, a figure then regarded as phenomenal and more than 100 times the estimate. The original owners – a family in Co Derry – were said at the time to be “delighted” with that price.
The dish – which measures just 10 inches in diameter – was bought by a specialist dealer in London, who then consigned it to Sotheby’s for yesterday’s sale.
Sotheby’s described the lot as a 15th-century “magnificent blue and white ‘dragon’ dish” and assigned it an estimate of between HK$10 million and HK$15 million. However the buyer paid HK$18.8 million (€1.8 million).
Commenting on the resale of the dish, which has leapt six-fold in value since the auction at Slane Castle last October, James O’Halloran, managing director of Adam’s in Dublin, said it was “exceptionally difficult to anticipate what people will pay for Chinese porcelain”.
The dish was made at the royal kilns of Jingdezhen in the reign of the Emperor Xuande (1426-1435) and is decorated with an image of a five-clawed dragon – a symbol of imperial power. It is extremely rare. The only other known example is a smaller version in a museum in Taipei – the capital of Taiwan. The dish was brought home by a member of a Co Derry family who served with the British army in China during the late Victorian colonial era.
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How much did you pay the local artists for their work. $3 or $4 dollars? then blast it up to $3000.
its kind of sickening. but at the same time, i can see that there is some money to be made here.
question is: do i really want to sink that low?
its kind of sickening. but at the same time, i can see that there is some money to be made here.
question is: do i really want to sink that low?
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