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Their chief representative in America, Wendy Wu, will be based in New York from the end of March and will also travel to San Francisco in order to secure consignments of both classic antiques and modern Chinese art.

The firm have also recently announced a sales total of RMB2.6bn (around £245m) for 2010, an increase of 55 per cent on the previous last year.