The fall sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art at Sotheby's in New York garnered a solid $2.5 million - Auction Block

Art Business News, Nov, 2002 by Vanessa Silberman

* The fall sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art at Sotheby's in New York garnered a solid $2.5 million. Top lot of the day was a rare yellow-painted Famille-Rose double-gourd vase from the Qing Dynasty (18th century) measuring 12 inches, which stunned auction officials when it sold for $345,000--well above its estimate of $30,000 to $40,000.

Other highlights included an elegant limestone figure of Buddha measuring 73 inches from the Northern Qi dynasty, which sold for $284,500 (est. $250,000 to $300,000), and a large pair of male and female grey pottery horses measuring 31 inches, each from the early Tang dynasty, which sold for $174,500 (est. $120,000 to $150,000).