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Sotheby’s Sees Surprise $1.5m Sale for Qing Silk

September 17, 2015 by Marion Maneker

Qing Silk Embroidery

Sotheby’s Asia Week in New York saw another runaway lot. In the past the works have been porcelains. But last November, Liu Yiquan spent $45m on a15th Century Tibetan Thangka at Christie’s in Hong Kong. Yesterday, bidders at Sotheby’s drove a Qing dynasty silk from its low estimate of $80k to a final premium price of $1.5m.

Sotheby's NY Asian Images of Enlightenment

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