PAIR OF CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE WUCAI FIGURES HANDLED VASE. Top Diam. 11.8cm. Bottom Diam. 15cm. H.43cm.

LOT52 TO LOT141 FROM COLLECTION FROM CHINA STATE-OWNED CULTURAL RELICS SHOP.

China Cultural Relics Shop was founded in the early days of People's Republic of China. In order to support economic construction, it organized the export and exchange of cultural relics, which is often referred to as export creation.

In 1956, the State Council limited the export ports of cultural relics to Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Shanghai. In November 1974, the State Council approved and transmitted the Circular of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage Concerning the Opinions on Strengthening the Commercial Administration of Cultural Relics and Implementing the Policy on the Protection of Cultural Relics (Document No. 132). The Commercial of cultural relics should adopt the policy of "less export, unified purchase, unified price and strengthened management". Cultural relics exported by foreign trade departments shall be supplied by cultural relics shops.

The main functions of heritage shops are as follows:

First, collect professional cultural relics scattered from the society and provide them to museums, research institutes and schools in a planned way for display and research purposes.

Second, we need to provide for the needs of the domestic people in a planned and selective way, and we need to reduce the amount of money that flows out and increase the amount of money that flows out. Proper amount of export organization.

Third, on behalf of the country to handle the selection of cultural relics in the materials.

Therefore, the business scope of the cultural relic shop at that time was mainly the professional cultural relics of historical, artistic and scientific value, such as stone and stone, calligraphy and painting, pottery and porcelain, inscriptions and stickers, as well as embroidery, jade and wood articles, second-hand goods and other pieces. Therefore, the warehouse of cultural relics company has collected a large number of folk cultural relics resources, which is an important collection source of the domestic cultural relics market in recent decades.

The old collection of the original cultural relics stores thematic auction a total of 90 pieces, all from the Chinese cultural relics store export overseas cultural relics collection. The source is clear, the age is very clear, and aesthetic, craft and collection value are strictly checked, striving to provide collectors and lovers with a very valuable art collection.

China's state-owned cultural relics store is a unique cultural relics management model in China. Throughout its historical development, China's state-owned cultural relics shops collected and protected a large number of cultural relics for the country, and also provided museums at all levels with a considerable number of collections, and met people's needs for collection and spiritual culture through commercial means. Because of its unique business model and selection criteria, as well as very professional selection channels, the cultural relics shop has become a favorite place in the mind of many collectors.

Good condition, no damage, no restoration. We show wear and tear, imperfections or effects of age in images. Contact us if you need verbal condition report. All counts, weights and measurements are approximate. Ignorance of terms by buyer is no excuse to bring action against the auction house or consignor. All sell as is and where as is, authentication of the artwork or antique has not been established nor is it implied. Pieces are being sold ""As Is"". No additional information regarding provenance will be provided after the auction. Authentic is not reason for return or unpaid results.