In our previous shared articles, Antique Chinese Ceramics or Porcelain are growing in demand from collectors worldwide. Some buy to keep or to be used in their private museums or just art pieces in their grand homes and mansions. Here in Malaysia, old ceramics and porcelain from the Straits Chinese era are also popular amongst descendants from the Baba and Nyonya clans especially in Penang, Melaka and Kedah. It is also equally as popular in neighbouring countries such as Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia which have a vast history in the Peranakan culture and influence.
MNP Auctioneers are currently organizing various antique auctions this year with our upcoming auctions happening in October and November 2017 respectively. Those who wish to know more about how to consign or even want to know the value of your items can contact our auctioneer, who is also a vivid antiques collector himself, Stephen Soon at 016-7231440.
Knowledge of your antiques and experience as a collector are needed to ensure, as a collector or seller, you are able to optimize the value/price of your priceless collection items.
Here is an article by The Star on 4th October 2017, regarding a priceless bowl being sold for RM169mil in Hong Kong. Do you have such bowls in your collection? Read more below:-
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Hong Kong: A 1,000-year-old bowl from China’s Song Dynasty sold for US$37.7mil (RM169mil) in Hong Kong, breaking the record for Chinese ceramics, auction house Sotheby’s said.
The small piece – which dates from 960-1127 – stole the previous record of US$36.05mil (RM153mil) set in 2014 for a Ming Dynasty wine cup which was snapped up by a Shanghai tycoon famous for making eye-watering bids.
The person behind yesterday’s winning offer wished to remain anonymous, Sotheby’s said, with the auction house declining to say whether the buyer hailed from the Chinese mainland or not.
“It’s a totally new benchmark for Chinese ceramics and we’ve made history with this piece today,” Nicolas Chow, deputy chairman of Sotheby’s Asia, told reporters.
The winning offer eventually came from one of the phone bidders and was received by a round of applause.
The bowl – originally designed to wash brushes – is an example of extremely rare Chinese porcelain from the imperial court of the Northern Song Dynasty and one of only four such pieces in private hands, according to Sotheby’s.
Measuring 13cm in diameter, the dish features a luminous blue glaze.
The price tag exceeds the earlier record made by a tiny white piece known as the “Chicken Cup”, decorated with a colour painting of a rooster and a hen tending to their chicks, and created during the reign of the Chenghua Emperor between 1465 and 1487.
That cup sold in 2014 to taxi-driver-turned-financier Liu Yiqian, one of China’s wealthiest people and among a new class of Chinese super-rich scouring the globe for artwork and antiquities.
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Read original article here at http://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2017/10/04/bowl-sold-for-rm169mil-in-hong-kong/
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