China Guardian spring auction totals 2.57b yuan

Sales of porcelain and works of art made for Qing Dyansty emperors realized 162 million yuan. The top lots included a fine imperial white jade seal (66.7 million yuan), a khotan jade dragon seal (34.5 million yuan), and a blue and white and famille-rose vase, which quintupled its pre-sale estimate to sell for 27.02 million yuan.

Among the gilt-bronze Buddhist images, the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva with the inscription of "da ming yongle nian shi" ,which means "made in the Ming Dynasty"(1368-1644) sold for 15.65 million yuan.

In addition, the Jia Shu Tang collection of ancient Chinese embroidered articles earned 17 million yuan. Other notable results included a bowl-shaped bronze censer (2.53 million yuan), a huanghuali display cabinet with crane and dragon design (8.28 million yuan), and a waisted luohan bed with seven screens and western motifs (2.99 million yuan).

Among the modern artworks, a shoushan tianhuang stone seal sold for 13.22 million yuan, Happiness Pot by Gu Jingzhou and Han Meilin for 8.28 million yuan, and a high-temperature color-glazed porcelain plaque for 1.84 million yuan.

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