The New York Asia Week auctions were very strong. Yet buyers still had plenty of money left over:

Sydney L. Moss Ltd: 35 items, totaling over $750,000, including

• An American collector paid in the region of $200,000 for a lacquered box by Ogawa Haritsu known as Ritsuō (1663-1747).
• The same collector also bought a Hanzan pottery censer for around $24,000 and a Hanzan inlaid 5-petal-form wood box with windblown theatre curtain design for $48,000.
• a four-case inrō signed by Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891) was among the first works to sell, at $80,000.
• An ivory carving just 4.2 cm high of a gruff-looking Shōki bending to tie his shoe while an oni runs over his hip, was sold for $17,500.

Eskenazi Ltd: Eskenazi sold 11 works, totalling several million dollars

Collectors from mainland China were particularly taken by a blue and white porcelain vase, Qing dynasty with the Qianlong mark, 1736-1795, and an iron-red decorated blue and white bowl with a Qianlong sealmark in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.  Two other ceramics were acquired by a collector from the Far East: a very important Ming period yellow-glazed porcelain ewer and cover, Jiajing reign mark and of the period, 1522-1566, and a celadon 18^th century jardinière.