Sotheby's Chinese Art

Sotheby’s London Fine Chinese Art sale exceeded estimates and brought a total of £8,427,600 – the highest total ever achieved for Chinese Ceramics. The highest price paid in today’s sale was for an extremely rare and important relief-carved blue and white ‘Dragon’ jar, Guan, Yuan dynasty, which was brought by the dealer Littleton & Hennessy Asian Art for £3,144,000. The cover lot – a large and important ‘Qingbai’ figure of Guanyin, which took first prize for a work of art in the prestigious Asian Art in London Competition – made £1,912,000 - bought by London dealer Eskenazi Ltd. Fifty percent of the top lots found homes in Western art collections demonstrating the international interest and buoyant market for Chinese art. There was competitive bidding both on the telephones and in a packed saleroom. For the full story - click the title Irish Art