RealZiSha's Most Treasured and Especial Premium Collection. (The Availability changes time to time)
Dearest Friends, we are the Cao Family in YiXing, and we write to you here again.
As a refresher course:
As a refresher course:
There are altogether only twelve National Grand Masters of The Arts in our ZiSha fraternity to be awarded the title, by the three National Ministries:
1. 国家文化部, our Ministry of Culture,
2. 国家工业信息部, our Ministry of Industry and Information,
3. 国家人力部, our Ministry of Manpower.
Chronologically:
The First Accreditation Session,
Nil awarded.
The Second Accreditation Session,
1. Gu Jing Zhou 顾景舟
The Third Accreditation Session,
2. Wang Yin Xian 王寅仙
3. Jiang Rong 蒋蓉
4. Xu Xiu Tang 徐秀棠 (for ZiSha Sculpting)
5. Lü Yao Chen 吕尧臣
The Fourth Accreditation Session,
6. Xu Han Tang 徐汉棠
7. Tan Quan Hai 谭泉海 (for ZiSha Engraving)
The Fifth Accreditation Session,
8. Zhou Gui Zhen 周桂珍
9. Gu Shao Pei 顾绍培
10. Li Chang Hong 李昌鸿
11. Bao Zhi Qiang 鲍志强 (for ZiSha Engraving)
The Sixth Accreditation Session,
12. Cao Ya Lin 曹亚麟
After the Sixth Accreditation Session, the Accreditation duties have been passed to the YiXing ZiSha Association.
Recognised in our fraternity, the Weight of Acknowledgement 含金量 is the highest for these twelve National Grand Master of The Arts.
Our Uncle, Cao Ya Lin, is the LAST to be awarded the National Grand Master of The Arts by all the three Ministries.
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Rest assured as you would have from us, the best in the market.
Best in Price and Best in Provenance.
We accompany you in YiXing.
Best in Price and Best in Provenance.
We accompany you in YiXing.
No nepotism, as we provide the best works from Artists we adjudge to possess and manifest the best value in the fraternity. We do not side with our own Cao Family Artists, as you can see on our site. We have many great Artists Friends in YiXing. We recommend accordingly and astutely. All our patrons these years have been benefiting with our recommendations. There are many pieces that we did not recommend. We choose what we see best in fraternity at any time as they come along available. And we will always get you the top pieces at the best prices in the market, with the best provenance.
And also, we treat you as an YiXing folk, and that you would be staying with us, brushing shoulders with the Grand Masters, speak Chinese and mix with us as one of our own.
Just one of our own, whom we will walk for many years.
Whether you are our student patrons, or Museum Curators from the Victoria & Albert, The British Museum, Professors in Material Sciences/Art from Italy, Australia, SouthEast Asia, we treat you accordingly the same and as one of our own YiXing folks, and anytime drinking tea with Grand Master Chen Guo Liang, Cao Ya Lin, Shao Shun Sheng, be it tomorrow or five years later.
Grandly, we have the following Legendary Museum Grade pieces in this section for all to purview and amazingly, procure that will live on as Family Heirlooms with escalating values, and of great fame and ultimate recognition.
We will hereby at this section, constantly show the current available Museum Grade pieces.
There are the Museum Grade Pieces from our two close Grand Masters:
1. National Grand Master of The Arts, 曹亚麟 Cao Ya Lin (our uncle),
2. Provincial Grand Master of The Arts, 邵顺生 Shao Shun Sheng,
with their works of excellence.
The prices are transparent, and gladly availed to all of you Esteemed patrons.
Also here at this section, we also have the following Legendary Museum Grade pieces in this section that are made available for all to purview and amazingly, procure that will also live on as Family Heirlooms with escalating values, and of great fame and ultimate recognition.
These Zenith pieces have been painstakingly scoured, picked and are currently available now in the fraternity. We have taken the photos of the Museum Grade ZiSha works for you too.
Also here at this section, we also have the following Legendary Museum Grade pieces in this section that are made available for all to purview and amazingly, procure that will also live on as Family Heirlooms with escalating values, and of great fame and ultimate recognition.
These Zenith pieces have been painstakingly scoured, picked and are currently available now in the fraternity. We have taken the photos of the Museum Grade ZiSha works for you too.
Almost all Masters do not reveal their prices in the open. And it is not because they do not want to be transparent. They do not reveal their prices too conveniently, because, they had been facing a barrage of enquiries daily, the past years, and most of them came about because the buyers/ZiSha retailers in China all wanted the "price quoted by the Master" and then went on to quote such prices to resellers of the similar pieces previously acquired. (The Masters over the course of the years, have crafted a few of the same titled works and had been released to the market over the past two to three decades).
These resellers are collectors and they have bought such pieces from these Masters in the past, and are putting them up on the market. Those interested parties often beg to have "prices quoted by the Master" and then they will go to use such prices to bargain down the prices quoted by the resellers. In effect, the Masters always do not get to sell their own pieces, and were disadvantaged because of all these probings into prices.
For example, Master ABC has a famous design called "XYZ" that retailed for $25,000 fifteen years ago in 2009.
XYZ's valuation had gone up over the course of fifteen years due to inflation and/or market forces and/or the Master gaining higher repute/won Awards/gained higher ranks and Emeritus titles. Thus in 2024 currently, the market "going rate" is +/- $200,000.
The Master has been working hard, and such prices uptrend usually not due to their own control but by market forces.
Now, a collector Mr Chen wanted to buy piece XYZ: and he/she has two choices:
1. Purchase from the Master directly for a new piece, or,
1. Purchase from the Master directly for a new piece, or,
2. Purchase from a collector who bought a piece fifteen years ago.
Mr Chen asked for a quote by option 1: the Master himself, who quoted $200,000.
Mr Chen subsequently use this price to bargain with option 2: another collector, thereby pushing down the buying price to $198,000.
We do empathise with all parties. Only through win-win on both parties: patron and Artist, would there be healthy sustenance and up-keeping of the honest works in this precious ZiSha Art from that we hold dear.
Fully-Handmade ZiSha forms the second half of the Tea Culture: Tea + Fully-Handmade ZiSha. The two are inextricably linked.
We provide the best in price, and insist the best in provenance (authenticity of collecting method/sourcing with proof) between buyer and Master.
What we do is to provide the best in price, and matched with the best in provenance. Patrons are all happy that they are getting the top pieces at the best prices, and with the best provenance. If the Artist had passed on, we will have the YiXing's fraternity designated authenticator to conduct the authentication for you friends.
There are the additional two big pieces of information to be wary of,
1) There are several big retailers in China, and their presence are made online as well.
What is scary is that, purchases from them 1)often yield prices that are transacted above market prices (customer is fleeced), and/or 2) are not guaranteed that the customer can get them authenticated by the Master/Designated Authenticator. The item thus is not able to be verified by the Master himself/herself (or the designated successor of the Master), and the customer just "have to believe the retailer's words", and/or 3) these pieces are actually crafted by Dai Gong workers working for these few mega retailers who commission these highly skilled workers to make a replica pieces for the customer: the customers hence would have gotten hold of pieces that are actually not crafted by the Master, but by skilled Dai Gong workers.
2) Many Masters and a few Grand Masters are engaged in the dishonest practice of Dai Gong themselves, for example, even very famous Grand Masters like a certain Grand Master F, a certain Grand Master L, etc, and many Master Artists (more than 90%) are like this.
For an explanation of the Dai Gong ways, you can read here:
https://www.realzisha.com/blogs/news/latest-updates-and-knowledge-of-the-ways-in-the-zisha-industry
https://www.realzisha.com/
We do know who they are, those Artists involved in the above (2) industry. So we avoid transacting with them for our customers, to safeguard their interests.
As we have mentioned on our site: https://www.realzisha.com/blogs/bespoke-commissions/the-ordination-of-senior-master-lu-xue-feng-under-national-grand-master-he-dao-hong
We had mentioned that our Cao Family CAN get any customer ANY work they wish to get hold of, from ANY Grand Masters/Master Artists,
We had mentioned that our Cao Family CAN get any customer ANY work they wish to get hold of, from ANY Grand Masters/Master Artists,
but we choose to avoid certain Grand Masters/Masters because of the above reason (2).
IF any customer still insist on getting such works, we will tell him we can, but we rather not to, and that if they insist on procuring such pieces from such said Masters in category (2), these customers must buy with their eyes wide open, and be prepared for tremendous fall in values along the years/ not having recognition /being ignored by the proper fraternity later on because these works came from the Masters engaged in the Dai Gong dishonest ways. After much advice, thankfully, all our customers would defuse their own insistence and avoid getting such works from these Artists practicing Dai Gong operations.
Besides our recommended Grand Master Cao Ya Lin and Grand Master Shao Shun Sheng above in the links (with prices stated openly and confidently),
Currently we have these four Museum Grade Works
1. Legendary National Grand Master of The Arts (Respectfully, The Late) 顾景舟 Gu Jing Zhou's work: 汉铎壶 Han Duo Hu,
Last transacted at auction: Year 2014 Spring, Bei Jing Kuang Shi 北京匡时 auction house,
Valuation at 4 million - 5.5 million rmb, Transacted: 6.21 million rmb ( ~USD 887k)
2. Legendary National Grand Master of The Arts, (Respectfully, The Late) 汪寅仙 Wang Yin Xian's work: 歪把梅桩 Wai Ba Mei Zhuang,
Last transacted at auction: Year 2012 Autumn, Bei Jing Han Hai 北京翰海 auction house,
Valuation at 1 million - 1.2 million rmb, Transacted: 1.7 million rmb ( ~USD 243k)
3. National Grand Master of Ceramic Arts, 何道洪 He Dao Hong's work: 秦方壶 Qin Fang Hu,
Last transacted at auction: Year 2013 Autumn, Bei Jing Kuang Shi 北京匡时 auction house,
Valuation at 1.6 million - 1.8 million rmb, Transacted: 2.53 million rmb ( ~USD 361k)
4. National Grand Master of The Arts, 季益顺 Ji Yi Shun's work: 五子登科壶 Wu Zi Deng Ke Hu,
Last transacted at auction: Year 2011 Spring, Bei Jing Kuang Shi 北京匡时 auction house,
Valuation at 100,000 - 120,000 rmb, Transacted: 575,000 rmb ( ~USD 82k)
With our usual reputation and hard work, we are able to fight for you and enable you to amazingly own these pieces at the following prices. We have been working hard and humbly delivering for our patrons all these years and we continue to do so, giving the industry's lowest prices.
Here they are, our hard-worked prices with the best provenance and service for you:
1. Legendary National Grand Master of The Arts (Respectfully, The Late) 顾景舟 Gu Jing Zhou's work: 汉铎壶 Han Duo,
Transacted at 2014 Auction at $887,000,
Our Cao Family are able to help you own this at only $735,000.
Recognised Authenticators: National Grand Master of The Arts, 徐汉棠 Xu Han Tang (Eldest Disciple), Master 葛陶中 Ge Tao Zhong (Youngest Disciple)
We will bring you to the either Grand Master Xu or Master Ge to collect your work and have it authenticated, photos and videos taken.
We will bring you to the either Grand Master Xu or Master Ge to collect your work and have it authenticated, photos and videos taken.
Authentication marks revealed to you.
2. Legendary National Grand Master of The Arts, (Respectfully, The Late) 汪寅仙 Wang Yin Xian's work: 歪把梅桩 Wai Ba Mei Zhuang,
Transacted at 2012 Auction at $243,000,
Our Cao Family are able to help you own this at only $195,000.
Recognised Authenticator: Provincial Grand Master of Ceramic Arts 姚志源 Yao Zhi Yuan (Wang Yin Xian's son)
We will bring you to the Grand Master Yao Zhi Yuan to collect your work and have it authenticated, photos and videos taken.
Authentication marks revealed to you.
3. National Grand Master of Ceramic Arts, 何道洪 He Dao Hong's work: 秦方壶 Qin Fang,
Transacted at 2013 Auction at $361,000,
Our Cao Family are able to help you own this at only $319,000.
We will bring you to Grand Master himself, He Dao Hong's own home to collect your work from him personally and have it authenticated, photos and videos taken.
Authentication marks revealed to you.
4. National Grand Master of The Arts, 季益顺 Ji Yi Shun's work: 五子登科壶 Wu Zi Deng Ke,
Transacted at 2011 Auction at $82,000,
Transacted at 2011 Auction at $82,000,
Our Cao Family are able to help you own this at only $69,000.
We will bring you to Grand Master himself, Ji Yi Shun's studio to collect your work from him personally and have it authenticated, photos and videos taken.
Authentication marks revealed to you.
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You have therefore these stellar choices for your desired Museum Grade works from these Grand Masters:
1. National Grand Master of The Arts, Cao Ya Lin, all works at his section on our site mainframe as provided,
1. National Grand Master of The Arts, Cao Ya Lin, all works at his section on our site mainframe as provided,
2. Provincial Grand Master of The Arts, Shao Shun Sheng, all works at his section on our site mainframe as provided,
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And these following works amazingly available for the most astute collector:
3. Legendary National Grand Master of The Arts (Respectfully, The Late) 顾景舟 Gu Jing Zhou's work: 汉铎壶 Han Duo Hu,
4. Legendary National Grand Master of The Arts, (Respectfully, The Late) 汪寅仙 Wang Yin Xian's work: 歪把梅桩 Wai Ba Mei Zhuang,
5. National Grand Master of The Arts, 何道洪 He Dao Hong's work: 秦方壶 Qin Fang Hu,
3. Legendary National Grand Master of The Arts (Respectfully, The Late) 顾景舟 Gu Jing Zhou's work: 汉铎壶 Han Duo Hu,
4. Legendary National Grand Master of The Arts, (Respectfully, The Late) 汪寅仙 Wang Yin Xian's work: 歪把梅桩 Wai Ba Mei Zhuang,
5. National Grand Master of The Arts, 何道洪 He Dao Hong's work: 秦方壶 Qin Fang Hu,
6. National Grand Master of The Arts, 季益顺 Ji Yi Shun's work: 五子登科壶 Wu Zi Deng Ke Hu.
Dearest Patrons and Friends, thank you for your kindest time exploring our efforts in YiXing all these years.
