SOTHEBY’S concluded their latest Hong Kong series of sales on April 4, raising a premium-inclusive total of over HK$2.46bn (£212.5m) for the eight sales containing over 2780 lots.
This was someway down on the equivalent
bumper series last year which took just over HK$3.49bn (then around
£274.8m), the auctioneers' highest ever total in Hong Kong, (and
one worth more if the HK$290m worth of aftersales from a falangcai
pheasant vase and a Chenghua bowl are included).
The highest price of the latest series was
the HK$185m (£15.9m) for this 5¼in (13.5cm) Northern Song dynasty
ruyao circular lobed brushwasher from a Japanese private
collection.
The finely potted dish made a
triple-estimate price and sold anonymously after a 15-minute
bidding battle.
It sets a new record for Song ceramics
beating by a considerable margin the HK$60m mallet-shaped vase
offered in the same rooms in April 2008, a piece that had also come
from a Japanese collection.
£1=HK$11.6
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