Art Appraisal and Intended Uses
Our Art Appraisal reports will provide you with the crucial information you need to make an informed decision. Every work of art is unique and irreplaceable. For insurance purposes, for example, a well-prepared value statement in an appraisal report will help you and your insurance agent take precautions to prevent or minimize loss. Our expertise, scholarly research on your object, and professional presentation of our value conclusion will convince your insurance agent why your art work is unique and irreplaceable, and why it should be protected and preseved properly.
Our Consultation Appraisal for Acquisition (buy) will equip you with the knowledge of the sophisticated global art market. To begin with, inspiring works of Chinese art have an aesthetic quality and a history that are difficult even for Ph.D.’s to appreciate and explain. In addition, the art market is quite unlike the real estate market, in that it is mysterious, difficult to learn about, and subject to significant fluctuation. You can’t just look up the previous sales records for the object you wish to buy. These important pieces of knowledge, however, are provided in a professional art appraisal for acquisition. Our art experts (Ph.Ds) are happy to serve as an extra pair of expert eyes on your behalf and help you build up a first-class art collection.
Our Consultation Appraisal for Disposition (sale) prepared by a first-rank art specialist (Ph. D. in Chinese Art and Tibetan Art) will allow you to present your art object to the auction house or a dealer with an expert's knowledge and confidence. You will not be overwhelmed by auction house representative or dealers who do not take the time to explain unfamiliar terminology from the worlds of Chinese aesthetics and modern art sales. A knowledgeable owner, educated about the object as well as how objects like it have fared on the market in the recent past, stands a much better chance of profit when negotiating from a position of strength.
An expert art appraisal not only prepares you to deal with professional buyers, but also opens new opportunities. Many people assume that an auction house will always offer the best value for their object, but that is often not true. You need to consider (and understand) an adjusted value estimate, the calculation of insurance costs, fees for catalog illustrations, buy-back reserve fees, and other extra charges and conditions typically subtracted from the hammer price of an auction sale. A professional art appraisal alerts you to these possible charges in clear language and also helps you think creatively about other options, including museum donation, gift to charity, and other measures that can help reduce your tax burden.
Our Appraisal for Charitable Contribution prepared by a qualified and reputable art expert appraiser will support you to claim a decution for your charitable contribution. While the IRS rules become more and more sophisticated, we understand your needs, we know the rules, and we will work diligently to help you prepare a strong presentation to the IRS agents for a deduction. We will be there for you from the beginning to the end.
Our Appraisal for Pre-nuptial Agreement, Dissolution of Marriage will ease your pain and emotional dilemma in a difficult situation. We will follow your instructions, act on your behalf, pay attention to details, and help you resolve the puzzle to the best of our ability.
Our Appraisal for Bankruptcy (Forced Liquidation, Orderly Liquidation or Salvage/Scrap) will allow you to stand firmly on your feet and make a strong and convincing argument in court. We are the most qualified Chinese art expert appraiser in the field and our opinions carry weight in the court.
No matter what your appraisal needs are, you are not alone. We are dedicated expert art appraisers, working exclusively for you. The art appraisal report prepared by our art specialists will provide all the information you need to achieve your goals successfully.
Meet Our Chinese Art Specialist
Dr. Wei Yang is a Chinese Art Specialist with a Ph.D in Chinese art and Tibetan Art and a certified Fine and Decorative Art Appraiser. She appraises Chinese art of all categories, including painting, furniture, woodblock prints, textiles, wood/ivory carvings and scholarly objects (ink stones, brush holders, etc.). Dr. Yang also specializes in Chinese decorative arts, such as screens, jade, kesi tapestries, and Tibetan Buddhist fine arts (Thangkas) and ritual objects.
For more than 25 years, Wei Yang has been educating the public about Chinese art. For many years she ran the education division at the Dunhuang Research Academy (Mogao Caves) in Dunhuang (Gansu, China), the largest repository of Buddhist art in the world. She moved to the U.S. and earned a B.A. degree in art history and a M.A.degree in East Asian Buddhist Art at Smith College (Northampton, MA), and completed a Ph.D. degree in Chinese art and Tibetan art at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) in 2005. Before she started her own company, WEI YANG CHINESE ART, LLC, she held the position of Chinese Art Bibliographer for the Marquand Art Library at Princeton University for two and a half years.
As a professional appraiser, Dr. Yang earned a certificate of Fine and Decorative Art Appraisal from Pratt Institute in New York in July 2009. In late 2008, she started to take the four Principles of Valuation courses in order to advance her career as a professional appraiser. She successfully completed the four-level-courses for Personal Property Valuation programmed by the American Society of Appraisers, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (2008-2009) administrated by the Appraisal Foundation, and passed a code of ethics exam required by ASA for a professional designation. Currently, Dr. Yang is an independent scholar, Chinese art adviser and appraiser.
With a scholarly focus on Chinese painting and Buddhist Art, doctoral training on Chinese art in general, a profound knowledge of the Chinese Art Market and Chinese Art Connoisseurship, as well as a mastery of a few Asian languages, such as Chinese (Both classical and modern), Japanese, and some Tibetan, Dr. Yang guarantees that her clients are offered professional services of the highest quality. As a professional academic, she is committed to all Chinese artistic traditions, and dedicated to helping others understand and appreciate Chinese art. As an expert Chinese art appraiser, she complies with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (2008-2009) and conforms to the American Society of Appraisers Code of Ethics in her practice.
Understanding Our Chinese Art Consultation and Appraisal Services
An Art Appraisal Helps You Meet All Your Goals. Our art consulting and appraisals are conducted by a Chinese Art Expert with a Ph.D. in Chinese art and Tibetan art and a certificate in Fine and Decorative Art Appraisal. We consider every Chinese art object an individual work of art. We are committed to a thorough investigation of your art work, large or small. We provide professional art appraisal documentation of Chinese art and Chinese art consultation.
Estate Planning? Estate Tax? Or Estate Distribution?
Insurance Coverage? Insurance Claim-Settlement?
Pre-nuptial Agreement? Dissolution of Marriage?
Charitable Donation? Bankruptcy?
Contemplating a Sale or Purchase?
Our formal appraisal report includes all the information critical to the realization of your goals. We prepare professional appraisals for Insurance Coverage, Insurance Claim-settlement, Charitable Constribution, Estate Planning, Equitable Distribution, Pre-nuptial Agreement, Dissolution of Marriage, and Consultation for acquisition or disposition, as well as Bankruptcy. No matter what situation you are in, what kind of difficulties you face, you are not alone, because you have the most qualified professionals on your side.
The appraisals reports prepared by our first-rank art specialists will help you understand what you have and its potential value(s). An analytical interpretation of the value structure will lighten the communication channel between you and your insurance agent or potential buyers regarding the value of the art object. If you are considering a sale, for example, a well-written appraisal report will present your unique art object to sophisticated potential buyers in the most professional and convincing manner. It will also show you the way to sell the object for top dollar. Can you afford not to have a Chinese art specialist appraise your art object?
We aim to provide you with the best professional art consultation and art appraisal services at the lowest cost. Please Contact Us, our art specialists are happy to answer your questions and help you with your art project at all levels.
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