Top heavy price for pear-shaped vase
Chinese sales at Christie’s South Kensington (17.5/10% buyer’s premium) can always be relied on to produce some good prices during Asia week. While the morning works of art session in their Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale, November 8, was quiet, business picked up in the afternoon for the ceramics section.
The biggest money was reserved for the final lot of the day: an underglaze copper red pear- shaped v…