Top items at Christie’s sale of classical Chinese furniture in Hong Kong this week easily surpassed their high estimates.
The 25 lot-sale of items from the Shitou Shuwu Collection brought in $11.2 million in total.
At the top end of the sale a 16th-17th century scroll form table sold for $2.4 million against a pre-sale high estimate of $1.9 million. A $1 million high estimate for a horseshoe chair became a $2.2 million sale. And a Huanghali bookshelf predicted to sell for as much as $638,000 in fact realised $1.9 million.
This was a rare chance to buy from an extremely important collection. But a record return from a watch sale in Hong Kong last month will have buyers and sellers wondering if there’s been another geographical shift in collecting markets.
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