Christie’s Hong Kong sales were a huge hit but no one was prepared for the success of the Rhino horn works, according to Colin Gleadell:

The biggest surprises came in a sale of rhinoceros horn carvings, in which 30 lots, estimated at $3.9 million, sold for $30 million. The record for a single piece now stands at $5 million, the price a Chinese collector paid for a 300-year-old rhinoceros horn vase.

Art Market News (Telegraph)