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Rhinos Charge in Hong Kong

June 1, 2010 by Marion Maneker

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)

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