Renowned collector's Asian art comes to Heidelberg sale

Among the lots in the sale of porcelain and works of art at Metz in Heidelberg on December 15 about 80 Asian pieces come from an old German collection that was on loan to the state museums in Berlin for many decades from 1963 onwards.

Several of these pieces had a prestigious provenance: they once belonged to Friedrich Hirth (1845-…

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