What is your Asian art worth?

Researched valuation of Chinese and Asian works of art — jade, porcelain, cloisonné, bronzes, export silver and snuff bottles. Period and quality checks, cited comparables.

Asian art covers Chinese, Japanese and South-East Asian works of art: jade, porcelain, cloisonné, bronzes, lacquer, scholar's objects and export silver. Each has its own rules of attribution and period. Pick a sub-category below to see the form your written report will take.

Asian art, in the saleroom sense, is the Chinese, Japanese, Korean and South-East Asian works of art that reached Western collections through trade, diplomacy and the great dispersals of the twentieth century: jade and hardstone carvings, porcelain and export wares, cloisonné and lacquer, bronzes, scholar's objects, export silver and snuff bottles. It is the field in which the gap between a genuine period piece and a well-made later copy is widest, and in which the buyers who set prices sit in Hong Kong and Beijing rather than London or New York.

Our written report covers material and attribution (nephrite or jadeite; imperial, scholar or export quality; which dynasty's vocabulary and whether it is spoken natively or quoted), the evidence that ties the piece to documented examples in museums and sale records, condition in the language of the material, and three to five cited comparable sales from the Asian-art sales of the major houses and the specialist dealers. Pick a sub-category below to see the form your report will take.

Where Asian-art value comes from

Three factors define the figure on almost every piece. Period — the same form can be Han, Ming, Qianlong or 1990, and each is a different market; the reports say which period the evidence supports and how confidently. Quality and material — the evenness of a white jade, the enamelling of a cloisonné box, the painting on an export bowl — which separates palace-workshop pieces from provincial ones by factors of ten or a hundred. Provenance and venue — a piece with a traceable previous sale or a collection label sells in a different room, to different buyers, at a different price. Our valuation report names the language category by category and says which checks still need the object in hand.

Upload photos of your piece in daylight, every side and the base, and we'll send back a documented valuation with the comparable sales we used — lot number, hammer price and venue — drawn from the Asian-art sales at Christie's, Sotheby's and Bonhams in Hong Kong, London and New York, the specialist regional houses and the dealers. We state a confidence level on the figure and tell you what would move it. We don't buy and we don't take consignment. Your first valuation is on us.

Reviewed by The Findthevalueof research team. Last reviewed 7 Oct 2026.

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