Bowled over: Chow studying the rare Ru Guanyao brush washer after it sold for a record-breaking amount at an auction in Hong Kong.
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.
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