What price you could afford to buy a yixing teapot

[yinwenqian]

what range of price you could afford to buy a yixing teapot?
Will you buy a teapot more than $1000,welcome your comments.

[Chip]

Hm, not sure how appropriate this topic is, especially since you want to sell posters $1000 yixing pots.

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[Chip]

I'll take 5 ... no 6.

[Poohblah]

I can get away with not paying rent for the next few months, right? Cool, I'll take one.

[Ludwig-1954]

Good morning, friends

It would clearly depend on the teapot and the market. Speaking
for Switzerland, I doubt that you will find many customers for YiXing
in the first place, let alone for USD 1000 plus.

Personally, I have spent a lot more on YiXing or porcelain I really set my mind upon. I know very well however, that - should I want to sell the piece - I will be lucky to reclaim any more than 40 to 50 percent of the price...

You will easily sell such items in the "ethno" and "eso" market in
Switzerland in a price range between USD 150 and 300 . Do not go for the High End or the Low End Market in Switzerland. Swiss people tend
to be suspicious and many have never learned to trust their own judgement

For the Swiss market, the key word is security, for which they are prepared to pay a very high premium.

Regards
Patrick B. Ludwig

[auhckw]

Over here in Malaysia I have seen
-artist teapot being sold (without the pot even made) at about USD 42k. The guy paid for the deposit, and when the teapot is delivered he will pay the remaining.
-few transactions of people buying artist teapot ranging USD 3.5k to USD 10k
-a buyer owning an artist teapot which he bought few years ago at about USD 5k then, and another buyer asking him to sell it to him at USD 28k now.

As for me, USD 1k to 1.5k range is still something that I can consider IF I like the teapot a lot (something I am ready to pay for a 3 legged teapot). But then I will never pay that kind of amount if I were to have to buy it online. Such price for a teapot has to be touched, feel, looked at many times before buying...

[Bob_McBob]

I think for most reasonably serious TCers, $100-200 is a good range for a nice pot. Sub-$100, most stuff available to Westerners tends to be crap, and over $200 you would only have interest from the more serious people.

Of course, the best idea is to offer pots at a range of prices, and concentrate on smaller sizes (120ml or less) if you want to appeal to us.

[gingkoseto]

Most of my teapots are sub-$100 too. I have butter fingers. And I don't make much progress even after mourning over some broken favorite pieces. So I mostly use things that don't make me worry too much, and for some favorite items, I stock up a few to several identical pieces, just in case
Occasionally, there are $100+ pieces that make me lose sleep. Sometimes I would buy it to get my sleep back. Sometimes I don't buy it and would sleep well again anyway.
I can't see myself buying any $500+ pieces in near future. May consider it if it's super nice AND if there is no way to break it - this doesn't seem possible for yixing though
But I am one of the most stingy among my tea friends

[TomVerlain]

One Billion Dollars !!!

[bagua7]

what range of price you could afford to buy a yixing teapot?
Will you buy a teapot more than $1000,welcome your comments.

So basically you are here to do a bit of market research and see if you can sell a $50 pot for 2 grand, right?

No interested, thanks.

Modern Yixing sucks, unfortunately.

[tingjunkie]

Sub-$100, most stuff available to Westerners tends to be crap

Depends on how you define "most" and "crap." I'd agree that a majority of inexpensive modern Yixing available to westerners is junk, but I have many pots in my collection which I paid less than $30 and are excellent performers. I have $10 pots which can preserve all the subtle nuances and compliment a perfectly aged 30 year old puerh. Many were lucky finds of course, but they're out there if you look hard enough.

Modern Yixing sucks, unfortunately.

Disagree completely.

[hopeofdawn]

Speaking only for myself ...

I'm not a wealthy person, and I'm certainly in no position to collect antiques/masterworks of any kind of art, including ceramics (much as I might wish otherwise!). So anything over $100 USD is going to make me seriously sit back and ask myself whether I would love and enjoy the piece enough to make me pay that much money. I'm also in the same boat as some other teachatters--teaware that is so expensive that I'd be afraid to use it (for fear of breaking it) doesn't do me any good either. After all, what good is a teapot that is never used to make tea?

That said, there are currently at least two beautiful pieces by Chinesepottery that I've been considering for quite a while that might make me break that $100 rule. I'm just not sure if I would use them enough to make them a worthwhile purchase ....

[Bob_McBob]

Depends on how you define "most" and "crap." I'd agree that a majority of inexpensive modern Yixing available to westerners is junk, but I have many pots in my collection which I paid less than $30 and are excellent performers. I have $10 pots which can preserve all the subtle nuances and compliment a perfectly aged 30 year old puerh. Many were lucky finds of course, but they're out there if you look hard enough.

I don't doubt that there are many lucky finds to be had, and there are certainly good values like the little zen8tea cheapie. However, the average person buying random cheap pots is going to end up with a lot of crap because they can't distinguish the good from the bad.

Even basic pots from Shouzhen are in the $100+ category these days.

[solitude]

below 100USD, and if there are only low quality pots in this range which will make my tea taste worst, than I will forget about yixing and go with porcelain gaiwan.

[In search of truth]

Despite what many people think,there is so little understanding of Yixing in the West that auction houses themselves do not know what they are selling and consequently the market price may in no way reflect the actual value.

The adage that 'the market will determine the price' may be correct in one regard only;the price.

This is not the actual value.

Keep your eyes open as there are bargains to be had.

The year of the Dragon is soon upon us and I hope this willn increase the value of Dragon spouted Yixing.