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...seal, lot 136, was the prize object in a 261-lot sale which raised a total of GBP8.3m. Although Sotheby's said it was 'not aware of any issue' with the seal's provenance - it was acquired in Paris in the 1970s by a European collector...

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...with Sotheby's Australia if it's just the name out the front." From here you can use the Social Web links to save Sotheby's sale 'disappointing' to a social bookmarking site. Michael Sainsbury, China correspondent ANZ has sealed a...

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...else. " The craze over contemporary Chinese art began to trigger serious waves on the international art scene in 2005, after the auction house Sotheby's established an Asian contemporary art department and began buying up works. Many of the...

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...in Chinese contemporary art prices anytime soon. "Right now, the market is still consolidating," said Tim Lin, a Taiwanese gallery owner at the recent Sotheby's autumn sales in Hong Kong. "The market will go up, but you can't just focus on...

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...for Chinese furniture Thursday, selling for about US $11 million. Nicolas Chow of Sotheby's, pictured, said mainland Chinese buyers were "ready to pay the premium." There was frenzied bidding among mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan...

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Pipeline May Quench China's Oil Thirst Christie's and Sotheby's are well known among the Russian elite as places to pick up antique furniture, an artistic masterpiece or an original Pushkin manuscript. Auctions are also an increasingly...

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...dealers in Chinese antiquities. Lally and major auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's have taken issue with the pending restrictions, according to Schumer's correspondence with the State Department. And for good reason: The art...

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...week's success. That, and the 60th anniversary of China's communist revolution, had given Chinese businessmen a belief that the Government would never let any harm come to the economy, one senior Sotheby's figure said. Others believe that...

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...States and Britain and ahead of France. Among the biggest winners Wednesday was Sotheby's, which along with William Acquavella, a Manhattan art dealer, had recently acquired the Estella Collection. The collection originally belonged to a...

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