HONG KONG — A 700-year-old Chinese painted scroll from the Yuan Dynasty fetched $41.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong. The 6-foot, 6-inch scroll, titled “Five Drunken Princes ...

When Christie’s Auction House first entered the secondary art market of mainland China in 2005, it licensed its brand to a local auction house and received a total of RMB 97,000,000 (roughly ...

Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s Latest Fine Art Sales Reel In $496 Million, Led by an Ink Scroll by Chinese Master Zhang Daqian The work exploded past its high estimate to set a new auction record for ...

The scroll’s price was estimated in the HK$10 million to HK$20 million range presale; the final hammer price of HK$213.5 million (US$27.5 million) meant the buyer, who bid by phone, would be ...

Sometime in the mid-13th century, Zhao Mengjian filled a 12-foot hand scroll with slender-leaved narcissus twisting and bowing, alive with the movement of a gentle breeze. Standing back, I marvel ...

A 1,000-year-old Chinese scroll rendered by the era’s most important artist sold for HK$463 million ($59 million), falling short of expectations that it would set a new Asian record for a work ...

Observers of Chinese classical art market wary of reading too much into auction of calligraphy scroll for 25 times its low presale estimate A 95-minute bidding war would have made headlines even ...