"In extraordinary times, no matter how much money you have, no matter how big the house is, you can only stay at home and be bored, while the collector's family is happily enjoying and playing with it. You have collected numbers, but he has hidden culture." --- Zen Gu Tea Man
started with only 24 US dollars, and now has a collection worth 100 million yuan. The collection experience of Zhang Zongxian, the owner of the great collector "Yunhai Pavilion", is worth learning from many ordinary collectors. "There is no eternal collector in the world. Instead of being sent away or cheated in the future, and people will debate endlessly whether it is true or false, it is better to sell it and feel comfortable."
at Sotheby's spring auction in Hong Kong a few years ago At the Shanghai preview exhibition, the 80-year-old Zhang Zongxian, the owner of the "Yunhai Pavilion", a great collector, seemed to be more eye-catching than the auction items. Zhang Zongxian is famous for his "dare to advance and courage to retreat" in the field of collection. From carrying only 24 US dollars in the beginning, to having a collection worth 100 million yuan today, his collection experience is worthy of learning from many ordinary collectors.
Tip 1: Work hard
Zhang Zongxian, 80, is originally from Suzhou. His grandfather Zhang Yiru was a famous bamboo carving master in Jiangnan. His father, Zhang Zhongying, was a famous antique dealer in Shanghai during the Republic of China. He opened "Juzhen Zhai" on the Bund, specializing in antiques. The Zhang brothers and sisters have been influenced by their family since childhood and have an unforgettable appreciation of traditional Chinese culture and art. In 1948, despite the opposition of his family, he went to Hong Kong to make a living alone. At that time, he only had 24 US dollars.
After some hard work and hard work, Zhang Zongxian opened the "Yongyuanxing" antique store in 1951. The business became more and more prosperous. Later, he opened several jewelry stores and antique stores one after another. However, the jewelry store was stolen and robbed, resulting in losses. As much as 60 million Hong Kong dollars, so it was given up. In 1968, he participated in the London auction for the first time and was the first Chinese to appear at an international auction. Since then, he has traveled far and wide, and he can be found wherever there are large-scale cultural relics and art auctions at home and abroad.
Today, in his "Yunhai Pavilion", there are ceramics, jades, clocks and antiques, traditional calligraphy and painting, Chinese oil paintings... everything is available, and almost every piece is a fine product.
's success comes from hard work. Perhaps many collectors think that Zhang Zongxian's collection is like "hanging high on a mountain". In fact, looking back on Zhang Zongxian's collection history, he also made his way step by step from very little primitive accumulation and hard work.
Tip 2: Use possessions to maintain possessions
When the antique store opened, Zhang Zongxian purchased a lot of cheap and high-quality porcelain, and later sold them for several million yuan, thus gaining a certain amount of primitive accumulation.
In 1980, Sotheby's in Hong Kong launched a batch of high-quality official kiln porcelain from the Ming and Qing dynasties, the legacy of Qiu Yanzhi, a famous collector who used to run an antique business in Shanghai. Zhang Zongxian saw this opportunity and purchased a lot of it. High-quality products will be put back on the market for auction after a few years, and the profits will be huge.
In 1999 and 2000, he commissioned Christie's Hong Kong to hold two special auctions. Almost all the items in the two special auctions were sold at high prices, with the transaction amount reaching hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, which brought vitality to the weak auction market at that time. . In particular, Yongzheng's "Blue and White Olive Vase with Five Bats and Nine Peach Patterns" was sold for HK$11.045 million, setting the highest price for blue and white porcelain from the Qing Dynasty at that time.
This time, Zhang Zongxian plans to auction most of his lifelong collection of paintings and calligraphy at Sotheby's in four installments. This year is the first time, with a total estimated value of HK$70 million.
Art Fox advises: If you know how to buy, you must also know how to sell, otherwise you will not be able to create the rich collection of "Yunhai Pavilion" today. From making profits from the "Porcelain Special Sale" to investing in calligraphy and painting, and then launching the "Calligraphy and Painting Special Sale" today, Zhang Zongxian's collection mentality of "I get it and I send it away" is of great reference significance.
Tip 3: Discerning insight
In the late 1980s, Zhang Zongxian believed that porcelain collection had reached a certain height. After "exiting" porcelain collection, Zhang Zongxian began to enter the field of modern Chinese calligraphy and painting collection, which was not optimistic at the time.
Due to lack of experience at the beginning, he also bought fake products and paid some tuition fees. But he was not discouraged, he was open-minded and eager to learn, and he was not ashamed to ask questions. In just two or three years, he became an expert in calligraphy and painting appraisal. In the late 1990s, Zhang Zongxian bought almost all the works that achieved good results in the calligraphy and painting market.
For example, at the Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong in 1992, Zhang Daqian's "Lingyan Mountain Color Picture" was a masterpiece of Zhang Daqian's late years. As a result, it was sold to HK$4.29 million, setting the highest market price for modern Chinese calligraphy and painting at that time;
Another oil painting by Chen Yifei, "The Remaining Rhythm of Xunyang", was bought by Zhang Zongxian for HK$1.375 million. At the first Chinese painting and calligraphy auction held by Shanghai Duoyunxuan in 1993, he bought a total of more than 2 million yuan worth of auction items, accounting for about all of the auction items. He accounted for one-third of the transaction volume and became the top buyer. Among them, Feng Zikai's "A Red Sun Surges from the East" was bought by him for 115,000 yuan, setting the highest price for Feng Zikai's works at that time.
Zhang Zongxian is also a frequent visitor to China Guardian’s previous auctions. In 1997, China Guardian launched Qi Baishi's "Fly", which was only about the size of a business card. Zhang Zongxian beat the crowd and locked in the price of 180,000 yuan. Including commissions, the total was 198,000 yuan.
Today, these works that Zhang Zongxian once bought with a large sum of money have already skyrocketed in price.
Remove the false and preserve the true, purify the collection, art comes from life
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