China News Service, Beijing, December 1st: A French Chinese bronze complex
The 66-year-old Frenchman Dai Kecheng took his new book, "Reading Chinese Bronze", and now the Beijing Poly Autumn Auction is on display.
Dai Kecheng claimed to be "half French, half Chinese." My grandfather is a well-known French publisher. His father studied Buddhism, Dai himself studied Chinese at a French university, and later studied archaeology and Oracle at Taiwan University. It is almost natural to be interested in bronze.
Since the 1980s, Dai Kecheng has opened antique shops in London and Paris, and is famous for its high-quality bronzes in the European antique world. From scholars to antique dealers, he said that antique dealers must quickly respond to an artifact with a correct response, both with the knowledge of scholars and the agility of businessmen.
Dai Kecheng said that the most important thing to do in this line is trust. There used to be a collector who had been with him for a long time. He knew that the other party had been yearning for a bronze. Later, Dai Kecheng saw this and told the other party "I am in front of this thing, but the price is very expensive." In the era when there was no video communication, the other party only listened to him and the check was transferred.
As a friend of former French President Jacques Chirac and a preacher and protector of East Asian culture, Dai Kecheng has repeatedly won medals from the French government, including the French National Art and Literature Knight Award. The title page of the book reads "Dedicated to my president's best friend."
Because of his accomplishments in Chinese archaeology, bronzes, gold and silver, he participated in the excavation of the tomb of the princess of the Tang Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty, and co-authored the book "Ancient Gold in China" with the famous Chinese archaeologist Han Wei. During his time as President of the French National Association of Antique Merchants, he brought the French Antique Biennale to the Asians for the first time.
In 1993, he donated a piece of Liao Dynasty silver box to the Shaanxi History Museum. In 2015, he donated 28 pieces of gold ornaments from the 11th century BC to the Gansu Museum. When asked about the reason for the donation, he only said that the people in the two museums were friends, so they donated. These friends have given him a lot of help, let him see a lot of the latest archaeological achievements, he is willing to give back this friendship.
Dai Kecheng said that although China's bronzes are very old, the Song Dynasty began to study bronzes, but the real system of research began with the archaeological discovery of the Yin Ruins in 1928. Unfortunately, due to the outbreak of the war of resistance, the research boom did not continue. Until 1972, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences research reopened the in-depth study of bronzes.
In this 200-page booklet, Dai Kecheng elaborated on the bronze casting process, shape, function and pattern from his 32 years of practical experience in bronze collection and trading, showing the long history of bronzes for China. The inheritance of culture, and from the intuitive experience of collection, explore the bronze artifacts of the past. Most of the bronzes selected in the book come from the European Meiyintang collection, which is served as a collection consultant.
"The current market is for Europeans to sell, and the Chinese are buying." Dai Kecheng said that the market is soaring, many old European collections are coming out, absorbed by the Chinese market, and everyone has the opportunity to see many that were not seen in previous years. good stuff. But he reminded that whether it is a collection of bronzes or other works of art, the best one should be collected.
Dai Kecheng said that when an artist is creating something, he is giving life to this thing. Even if all the details are similar, it has no vitality. “You have to collect because you like it, you shouldn’t just think about investing, and art investment doesn’t necessarily make money.â€
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