A Sotheby’s pre-auction display in Hong Kong in April looked like a storeroom for looted treasure. Banged onto cubicle walls and otherwise strewn about the massive Hall Five of the Hong Kong Convention Centre were art, jewellery, watches, ceramics, calligraphy – the works. Bizarrely, it was the way precious items were scattered about, flea-market style, that impressed. It was if…
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