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Sotheby's HK to auction chinawares worth HK$200M

Sotheby's Hong Kong is holding an auction on April 29 to sell some 300 items of Chinese ceramics, works of art and emperor Qianlong's stationery, altogether estimated at 200 million HK dollars.


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Some 170 pieces of Chinese ceramics, imperial porcelain and works of art once owned by royal families are expected to be put up for auction at the upcoming Sotheby's 2004 Spring Auction in Hong Kong on April 25. Values of these pocelain articles are estimate at HK$200 million.


Sotheby's Hong Kong is holding an auction on April 29 to sell some 300 items of Chinese ceramics, works of art and emperor Qianlong's stationery, altogether estimated at 200 million HK dollars.

At the press briefing on Tuesday, Sotheby's Hong Kong introduced to the reporters part of the items. Among the some 140 items of emperor Qianlong's stationery, the one with the highest estimated price, 7,000,000 to 9,000,000 HK dollars, is a soapstone seal which was masterfully carved with a mythical animal. It was used on a number of calligraphy that once belonged to the emperor, how housed in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Other stationery include a carved and inscribed shell-shaped white jade cup, estimated 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 HK dollars, and an extremely rare inscribed green jade mountain, estimated 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 HK dollars, were also shown.

Some of the finest and very rare pieces of imperial porcelain will also be found in the auction. They include a pair of superbly enameled double gourd vases with dense foliage pattern from the late Qianlong period, estimated 6,000,000 HK dollars. The pair has got a dense bouquet of mixed flowers including peonies, roses, lotuses and daisies were finely enameled which displayed a myriad of pastel colors.


An engraved vase dating back to Qian Long(1736-1795) period of Qing Dynasty



Emperor Qianlong's stationery of Qing Dynasty(1644-1911) on exhibition


Source: Xinhua


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