Christie’s breaks an Asian art auction record

A select sale of just 31 lots of Asian art assembled by a Japanese collector and his sons raised a recordbreaking $262.8m (£215.5m) at Christie’s New York on March 15. It made more in a single evening than any New York Asian sale series.

The selection of archaic bronzes, classical paintings, Buddhist sculpture, celadon ceramics and sc…

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