Our Chinese Art Expert is happy to help you achieve ALL your goals. Have questions about Chinese Art? Need professional Chinese Art Consulting for your Chinese Art Collection? Need Chinese Art Appraisal for your art objects? Want to know more about the Chinese Art Market? Want to know Where and How to sell your Chinese art objects for top dollar? Let our Chinese art specialists help you meet your art consulting and appraisal needs.
We are Chinese art professionals with experience and integrity. Quality, honesty and transparency are our most important values. We never mislead you, and we will never ask you to pay for services that are unnecessary. Our job is to provide you with objective advice: we are completely honest about the art you own and its likely performance in the current Chinese art market. The written report we prepare is based on thorough research on the history, style, and artistic background of your art, as well as the recent performance of similar objects on the Chinese art market. As professional, independent art advisers and appraisers, we care about you and your art exclusively.
We are transparent in providing high-quality professional services at a minimum cost. Before we begin research, we state what you can expect in a written report, explain the way we figure costs, and ask for your approval. We insist that you understand the appraisal process before committing to it, and we are happy to answer any questions you may have about the appraisal. We are often able to extend a discount for appraisal of multiple objects of a similar style or by the same artist. All the Chinese art appraisals are prepared by our Chinese art specialist with a Ph.D. in Chinese art. We commit ourselves to expertise, quality and professionalism.
How to Request a Quick Review
A quick review of one art object in order to determine suitability for appraisal is FREE, depending on our schedule. The quick review usually results in advice about whether or not to proceed to a proper appraisal. Beyond that, we charge a modest fee for our expert's time. Our experts are often overloaded with a large volume of such requests. Thus, we can only review one item briefly as a courtesy to prospective clients.
Clients who need a quick response or have more than one object needing quick review should first Contact Us, then send appropriate payment to initiate our response. If the review fee applies to you, please send us a check made out to "Wei Yang Art, LLC" or make payment to contact@weiyangart.com via PayPal. You will hear from us within 24 hours after we recive your payment.
If you then proceed to commission a full appraisal, the fee paid for a quick review will be credited toward your final payment.
The Truth about Free Advice
Free information is usually worth what you pay for it. We work very hard in the hope that we can make a difference to art owners who otherwise lack acess to art consultation and appraisal services. We serve our clients to the best of our abilities. However, we know our limitations, and as professionals, we cannot afford to work for free.
Asking an art consultant and appraiser to provide you with free information is likely to result in poor information. Could you please look at my art, and tell me what it is worth? Is my art work authentic? Can you give me a list of agents or dealers or auction houses who can sell my art? Can you tell me how to sell my art? A quick response to this kind of question is usually not possible, since a proper answer requires study of your object, research on its background, and market analysis. A quick response or a judgment about whether your object is worth appraising may be possible, but you should not count on it. Qualified, professional art consultants and appraisers are precisely that--professionals--and they don't have the luxury of offering their services for free.
Art consultants and appraisers are not able to meet your consulting and appraisal needs for free. Like anyone who makes an honest living, we aim to be friendly and generous, but we cannot devote our time and give away specialized knowledge or skills without remuneration.
If you want high quality judgment based on research and experience, you should be prepared to pay for it. This is the only honest and honorable approach.
If you are seriously looking for a Qualified Chinese art consultant and appraiser, please Contact Us, or call us at (609) 688-6891.
How to Order An Appraisal
Step 1: Contact Us with your questions. Be sure to send us three photos of your object (front, back, and a close-up of any inscriptions, signatures, seals or marks). We are happy to advise you if your art object merits an appraisal or not.
Step 2: Explain your consulting and appraisal needs. Please be specific about your needs and goals, for example, general consultation, sales, insurance, estate tax/distribution, charitable contribution, etc. We are happy to recommend a specific appraisal level to achieve your goals..
Step 3: Make an appointment for inspection. If your object merits an appraisal and you are ready to proceed, please prepare two tentative dates for inspection before you contact our appraisers. An inspection is required for most antique art works (pre-1911). In some limited, exigent circumstances, appraisals can be completed via a set of high-quality digital photos of the object; in any event, confer with us ahead of time. We charge a flat fee for an inspection in our Princeton (NJ) office. If our appraisers travel to inspect the object(s) at your address, you will be responsible for all travel expenses and fees involved. Please discuss your options with our appraisers.
Step 4: Sign an agreement and pay a deposit to initiate the research. If an appraisal is conducted based on our expert's hourly rate, then the client pays a retainer fee prior to our commencing research. If work is undertaken on the basis of our discounted, flat-rate proposal, then full payment is required to initiate our research.
Step 5: Make final payment. The final balance is due before we send you the report. We will notify you via email when the report is completed.
Step 6: Delivery of the report. Once we receive final payment, a hard copy of the report will be sent to you via first class U.S. mail, or a faster delivery method at extra cost.
We prefer a personal check or money order made out to "WEI YANG ART, LLC," and mailed to 274 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A. You can also pay with PayPal (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express cards as well as other online payments supported by PayPal).
We do not accept foreign personal checks. International clients are required to make payment via bank transfer, money order, or PayPal.
Interested? Contact Us, or call us at (609) 688-6891. We are happy to assist you with your Chinese art project at all levels.
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