![]() With the high-end Chinese ceramics art market now on fire given a steadily diminishing supply of great pieces, smashing record after record and even riding the financial crisis relatively unscathed, very strong demand is expected.įired in the legendary imperial kilns of Jingdezhen in southern China’s Jiangxi province over many dynasties, the cachet of such historical relics and national pride have fueled Chinese buying both on the world stage and inside China, where a slew of auction houses have sprouted up to ride the market boom. “I don’t think we’ve had a collection of imperial porcelain as important as this one in the last 30 years,” Nicolas Chow, deputy Chairman of Sotheby’s Asia and the global head of Chinese ceramics, told Reuters in his Hong Kong office. In April, a small consignment of 80 lots from the Meiyintang (Hall Among the Rose Beds) wares will be put on the auction block for the first time by Sotheby’s in what market experts say could be a landmark sale fetching over HK$1 billion ($128 million). Known largely from catalogues by noted sinologist Regina Krahl, the pieces in the Meiyintang collection, carefully acquired over half a century by Swiss pharmaceutical tycoons, the Zuellig brothers, are considered one of the best and last intact major private Western collections of Chinese ceramics. Sotheby's Asia Deputy Chairman Nicolas Chow poses with a "Blue and White Palace Bowl with Melons" at a preview by auction house Sotheby's in Hong Kong in this Februfile photo. ![]()
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