2010年7月,北京保利首次在中国内地举办了英国银器专场拍卖,一件维多利亚时期(1837～1901)的银制镀金海马分层饰盘以31.36万元高价成交,成为该场拍卖会的焦点。这次试水开启了中国拍卖行业对于外国古董银器的视野,也为随后国内古董银器收藏群体的扩展提供了契机。内地新兴收藏在相当长的历史时期里,银器的市场管理、交易活动一直被上层统治者所牢牢控制。银器的制作、鉴定、定价、税率也处于严格的监管之中。与之相适应,统治者也为银器市场制定了严格的规章制度,以保证银器的质量及重量。由于使用者多处于社会上层,因此银器市场从其诞生之日起,便被限制了自由。直到社会相当发达,社会制度发 July 2010, Beijing Poly for the first time in mainland China held a silverware auction in the United Kingdom, a Victorian (1837 ~ 1901) silver plated hippocampus layered decorative plate to 313,600 yuan high price to become the auction focus. This test of water opened the Chinese auction industry’s view of foreign antique silverware and provided an opportunity for the subsequent expansion of the domestic antique silverware collection. Emerging collections in the Mainland For a long period of history, silverware market management and trading activities have been firmly controlled by the upper rulers. Silverware production, identification, pricing, tax rates are also in strict supervision. In response, rulers also set strict rules and regulations for the silverware market to ensure the quality and weight of silverware. As users are mostly in the upper class, the silverware market is limited in its freedom from its birth. Until society is quite developed, the social system made