The first day of the two-day Sotheby’s Hong Kong fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Autumn sale 2010 concluded yesterday. Thirty-five lots of imperial treasures brought HK$1.15bn (US$148m). A yellow-ground famille-rose double-gourd vase seal mark and period of Qianlong was bought by a local collector, Alice Cheng, for HK$252.66m (US$32.5m), a record for any Chinese work of art bought…
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