To become a bidder with ECA, you first need to know that ECA provides a very unique opportunity to bid for an item either online, from the floor or over telephone. You can be an Internet Bidder, a Floor Bidder or a Telephonic Bidder for the same auction and same lot.
 
To be an Internet Bidder, a Floor Bidder or a Telephonic Bidder you have to collect the Bidder Registration Form through any of the following ways:

1. You will find the Bidder Registration Form in the Catalogue
   
   
2. You will find the Bidder Registration Form in the "Guide to ECA" book
   
   
3. You may register for free at our portal www.emamichisel.com using any of your valid E-mail IDs and download the Bidder Registration Form.
   
   
4. For a Floor bidder or a Telephonic bidder it is not mandatory to register with www.emamichisel.com, though we always encourage you to do the same as it is free. Registering through the portal allows you to gain in knowledge about today's art scenario through various links on the site itself.
   
   
5. To justify your credential as a valid bidder you have to submit any of the following:
   
   
1. A certificate of standing from your banker.
   
   
2. Two (2) referrals
   
   
3. As earnest deposit, 10% of the maximum amount you wish to bid.
   
   
4. Send this along with your completed Bidder's Registration Form, by courier or deliver in person to :
   Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd.
   Address : 687 Anandapur E.M. Bypass Kolkata 700107 W. B. India
   Phone : +91 33 40113182/ 3183
   Fax : +91 33 40113189
   
   
6. Acceptance or rejection of your application will be at the sole discretion of ECA.
   
   
7. For an Internet Bidder the same username and password combination will grant him unlimited access to the portal and so he/ she can bid for any Lot of that Auction in accordance with the approved bid limit.
   
   
8. An Internet Bidder may place a Bid for any Lot or set his Upper Limit Bid for a Lot through the "Proxy Bid" facility from the portal itself after login as an unlimited user or Internet Bidder.
   
   
9. A Floor Bidder or a Telephone Bidder can bid in that auction in person or over telephone.
   
   
10. For any reason if a Floor Bidder or a Telephone Bidder cannot participate in any auction he/ she can fill up an "Absentee Bid Form" available from the same sources and set his/her Upper Bid Limit for a Lot.
    
    
11. In the event of your having furnished an earnest deposit and your application being rejected, or in the case of an unsuccessful bid, your deposit money will be refunded within 15 days of the auction being concluded.

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If you have an artwork you wish to auction through Emami Chisel Art, you may consign your artwork either online, in writing, over telephone or else in person.

To help ECA evaluate your property, please provide the following information about your work and forward it to us.

1. Name of Work
2. Name of Artist
3. Low Resolution and High-resolution Image of your work.
4. Signature
5. Provenance
6. Year of Creation
7. Your estimated Reserve Price
8. Category
1. Digital Art
2. Drawing
3. Painting
4. Photography
5. Print Making
6. Relief Sculpture
7. Sculpture
9. Style
1. Abstract
2. Academic
3. Expressionistic
4. Figurative
5. Landscape
6. Still Life
10. Medium
    

    Acrylic Acrylic and oil Aquatint Archival print Bronze Casein Charcoal Chemical Drawing Collography Conte Copper Engraving Dry Pastel Dry Point Egg Tempera Enamel Encaustic

    Etching Gouache Graphite Ink Ink and wash Inkjet Intaglio Iron and concrete Linocut Lithograph Mixed media Mixed media ins Monoprint Oil Oil Pastel Papier Mache

    Pastel Pastel and Charcoal Pen and Ink Pencil Pencil and Pastel Serigraphy Tempera Tie and Dye Vegetable Dyes Viscosity Watercolor Watercolor and Graphite Watercolor and Ink Watercolor and Pen and Ink Woodcut




11. Surface
    
    

    Acid free paper Acrylic Acrylic Sheet Arches paper Board Brown Paper Canvas, wooden Ceramic Cloth Fabric Gateway and Magazine Paper

    Glass Hardboard Jigsaw Puzzle Leather Linen Masonite Mylar Newspaper No Surface Paper Paper Board

    Paper Mache Paper pasted on Board Paper pasted on Canvas Photo Glossy Paper Polyester Film PVC Sheet Rice Paper Rice Paper Laid Shikshiki Board Silk Wood Wood Board

    
    
    N.B. Please feel free to pass on other information about your property which may not be there in the list.
    
    
    
12. Now you can communicate with ECA either online, in writing, over telephone or else in person.
    
    
1. Mail to consignment@emamichisel.com with a low-resolution image of your 'property', including all possible details.
   
   
2. To send in your intent to consign by post, send an image of the 'property' along with all necessary details as outlined above.
   
   
3. To consign your property in person, call ECA at any of our numbers (details in Contact Us page). You will be given a date and time when you can meet an authorized ECA representative to discuss details of your 'property'. Remember to carry an image of the artwork along with your proof of ownership and relevant details of the artwork to be auctioned as mentioned above.
   
   
4. Your consignment will be inspected by ECA's panel of art experts. If accepted, a letter of acceptance will be sent to you.
   
   
5. In the event of your 'property' being selected, a Reserve Price will be mutually agreed upon and your artwork will be given a Lot No. and included in a matching auction.