Hi All
Sorry to keep harping back on this subject, but I really cannot believe my and Geoff's luck at the recent Paidegao auction in HK in February 2019
Geoff's bottle (which he has published below in this string ) was a real beauty ! When I saw it up-front-and-personal at the pre-auction viewing I fell in love with it at once, and would have happily out-bid Geoff for it up to twice the hammer price if he had been a 3rd party participant and thus not a fellow-collector friend
The beautiful blue glass Chen Runpu bottle which I successfully bid for in behalf of a S'Pore friend was equally a real bargain ! Only HK$5,000 hammer price !
Compare this with my single only Chen Runpu bottle ... @ HK10,000 (which I thought at the time was a bargain !) See attached : P120
And again compare with what Joey wrote below :
" In 1996, during the Beijing part of the 1996 ICSBS Beijing/Hong Kong convention, I bought a bottle of his, directly from him for US$3,000 [almost HK$24,000].
It is B-8 in "Worlds", and features a continuous winter landscape in the Song Dynasty Orthodox School landscape style."
NOTE TO JOEY : Not sure what you mean by "Worlds" . Please would you clarify and/or post a pic of your bottle for interest? On the other hand a pair of Chen Runpu (= Chen Runzhen) bottles from the J.H. Leung collection (see page 50 English version of "New Look" bottles 75 + 76) which went for over HK$15,000 for the pair at the auction looked (literally)
AWFUL at the pre-sale viewing and I would not have bid even a cent for them, even knowing they were vintage "New Look" Chen Runpu bottles
But what really shocked - and delighted - me was my chance purchase of the delicate little Lu Danlin bottle
for ONLY HK$1,500 !
It is so exquisite that it now forms part of my 'core' collection of pure beautiful Chinese landscapes, even though I never before had the slightest interest in the Yue School .So the lesson, perhaps, is to keep an eagle eye out for auctions, particularly minor auctions, and look out for bargains - if possible viewing the bottles first before bidding (because on-line photos are often deceiving, as per the Chen Runzhen/ Runpu pair I mentioned above)
And I guess the same goes for e-bay if one has a good eye for the "real thing" and deals with reputable sellers
I therefore now eat "humble pie" when I re-read all the postings about bargain bottles snapped up on e-bay .....
Cheers
Peter
