The antique is a fake.
那古董是一件赝品。
They found the
antiques there more valuable.
他们发现那里的古董更有价值。
Antique atmosphere inside the hall.
大厅内古香古色的氛围。
He spent his vacation antiquing in Beijing.
他利用他的假期在北京觅购古董。
A passion for classical antique Chinese furniture learned from his family inspired Hong Kong trader Andy Hei to establish the Fine Art Asia fair, which has now become an important date on the calendar for enthusiasts worldwide.
In 1989, Hei worked in New York for renowned Asian art and antique dealer Robert Ellsworth, gaining his first experiences in top-end exhibitions and fairs.
In 1999, Hei set up a shop on Hong Kong's Hollywood Road, Andy Hei Ltd. , specialising in Chinese antique furniture, and used it as a way to introduce new platforms for the Asian art market.
Hei stressed the importance of updating and reinventing the art fair, which has evolved from a traditional antiques fair to featuring contemporary art and photography.
The real enemy of tea is old tea — which either has been downgraded to a cup of additives or overpriced to the levels of antiques because of speculation.
The ongoing sixth China International Import Expo has a bigger and more diverse showcase of artworks and antiques than ever before.
Eighteen exhibitors from the United States, Britain, Singapore and other nations have brought the artworks to the CIIE, where the exhibition for art and antiques takes up an area of more than 3,000 square meters, bigger than in previous years.
Over the past few years, the art section of the CIIE has developed "from a rising star to an important window for cultural exchanges", said Wang Jiaming, deputy general manager of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Cultural Investment & Development Co Ltd, the authorized service provider for the CIIE's art and antiques section for the last three years.
Wallace Chan: Earthly-Unearthly showcases more than 150 jewelry creations by the artist with a total value of nearly 560 million yuan, including the stellar brooch sculpture Stilled Life that wowed audiences at the 2012 Antiques Biennale in Paris, when he was the first Chinese artist to participate.
The Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Customs and the State Taxation Administration jointly announced before the CIIE last year that exhibitors for artworks, collectibles and antiques will be exempted from import tariff and value added tax and be provided with favorable consumption tax for up to five exhibits.
In the historic city of Xi'an in the northwestern Shaanxi province, dancers dressed up as the Terracotta Warriors and Emperor Qinshihuang, who unified China for the first time, to present the popular "Subject Three" dance in an antique street, attracting numerous viewers on China's social media platforms.
Global imports of art and antiques increased 41 percent in 2021 and exports were up 38 percent, with double-digit increases continuing in the first half of 2022 versus the same period in 2021.
Shanghai has also pledged to build the city into an international center for film and TV productions, a trading center for artworks and antiques, and a center for fashion, design and creative branding.
Yang is still indulged in secondhand objects and spends much time traveling around searching for antiques.
A list detailing the quotas for five specific categories -- machines and instruments; tractors; ships; medical equipment; artwork, collectibles and antiques -- was published on the government's website.
In compliance with the tax-break policy, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Shanghai municipality signed a pact on Nov 10, which removed the existing six-month legal window for imported artworks and antiques at the bonded art warehouse in Shanghai's Free Trade Zone.
The policy will also help artworks, especially Chinese antiques from overseas, find their way back to China and be procured by Chinese collectors, and encourage more international exhibitors at the expo to enter the Chinese market.
These exhibits include machines and instrument, tractors, ships, medical equipment, artwork, collectables and antiques.
It provided services to British artist David Hockney's first exhibition in China, which was held in Beijing from August and will be concluded in January; exhibitors and collectors of the 2019 Guardian Fine Art Asia, one of the top antique and design art fairs in China; and the Jupiter Museum of Arts in Shenzhen, which displayed 104 works from 60 modern Chinese artists from December this year to April.
Touching a decrepit antique locker, he remembered being reprimanded by his mother for stealing snacks as a small boy.
At the end of a long list of potential tariff targets by the Trump administration sits a handful of peculiar items, including "paintings, drawings and pastels, executed entirely by hand, whether or not framed", and "antiques of an age exceeding 100 years".
"A Chinese antique vase that has been in France for the past 50 years and imported into the US for sale or exhibition would be subjected to the tariff despite its long tenure outside China," wrote Lena Wong, posting on behalf of auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's.
Alternate investments like arts and antiques make sense only to the few who can truly understand the market.
China's authorities have tightened oversight on auction houses, antiques markets, short-video platforms and second-hand online trading sites to tackle the black market trade of cultural relics.
They aim to raise the bar for legal entry for the trade of antiques and art, improving the scrutiny of sources and focusing on eliminating irregularities in related sectors, Luo Qingdong, deputy head of the first procuratorial office of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, said at a news conference on Monday in Beijing.
China's authorities have tightened oversight on auction houses, antique markets, short-video platforms and second-hand online trading sites to tackle the black market trade of cultural relics.