Asian arts and specifically Asian Ceramics have incredibly increased in value the past twenty years. For Thierry Portier, a well known French expert in Asian Arts, "for Asian ceramics, the bigger prices are reached by the pieces made for the Chinese market, and of course those made for the Emperor or those given by the Emperor". While pieces were sold for a few thousands euros in the late 90's, Asian works of art often reach 15 000 €, and recently Drouot sold a vase for for 4.8 Million € and a vase in the UK reached 60 Million €!

On the other hand all the Asian export ceramics made by the Chinese for the European market is disregarded. Europeans don't hang ceramics to their walls anymore. But for Antoine Lebel and Michael Cohen, two dealers specialized in Asian export porcelain, the Chinese are getting involved in the business of this specialty so prices might rise again and balance the lack of European new collectors.

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By comparing the buying intentions trends for Asian Ceramics and Asian Ancient arts one, there is a significant gap. For Thierry Portier, this is due to the fact that the trade of "Chinese archaeology is forbidden in China because each time a farmer would have a tumulus on his field, he would dig in it rather than cultivate. So each sale made in China for Chinese archaeology is based in Hong-Kong. On Hollywood Road in Hong-Kong, you will find hundreds of dealers who send their pieces in the USA or in Europe". If a Chinese collector buys Chinese archaeology in Europe his pieces would be seized by Chinese customs, so the global trends of Chinese archaeology isn't doing as well as the Chinese ceramics do.

Furthermore, "these pieces come from graves so culturally they aren't really into collecting such pieces", says Antoine Barrere, the son of famous Jacques Barrere, expert in Asian Ancient art in Paris. "But I believe that in the next years, because of the growing rarefaction of great imperial ceramics, the Chinese will soon collect Chinese archaeology", says Thierry Portier. 

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