Asian buyers compete for works from European collections in German and Austrian specialist auctions
Far and away the highest result for an Asian work of art in recent sales in Germany, Austria and Switzerland was the spectacular price of SFr4.2m (£3.3m) achieved by Koller in Zurich for a Chinese bronze censer (see front page, ATG No 2397).
Auction houses in Cologne and Salzburg could not compete with this but nevertheless lively, albeit…