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  • Most Expensive Collectibles Sold on Sotheby’s (September 2013)

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    At the Beginning of the Month we search Sotheby’s Auction Results and Post the TOP 5 Auction Highlights that Sold for the highest price. This listing was one of the Top 5 sales at Sotheby’s month, we hope you enjoy this information as much as we enjoy posting it! Please make sure you come back periodically to see the Top Collectibles that Sold at Sotheby’s.

    The Zuo Bao Yi Gui Bronze Ritual Food Vessel Early Western Zhou Dynasty, 11th-10th Century BC Sells for $6,661,000#1. The Zuo Bao Yi Gui Bronze Ritual Food Vessel Early Western Zhou Dynasty, 11th-10th Century BC Sold for $6,661,000.
    Description: The gui superbly cast raised on a square pedestal, the rounded body decorated on each side in high relief with a large taotie mask with raised eyes with rectangular slit pupils framed by curved fangs, ears and curved, hooked horns.

     

     

     

    A Pair of Magnificent Sancai-Glazed Pottery Horses Tang Dynasty Sells for  $4,197,000#2. A Pair of Magnificent Sancai-Glazed Pottery Horses Tang Dynasty Sold for  $4,197,000.
    Description: Each of imposing size, superbly modeled, standing foursquare on a rectangular base, with head high and turned to the left, the nostrils flared and mouth open to reveal well defined teeth, one a strikingly beautiful black horse with a flowing white mane falling in serrated waves from the arched neck, the forelock parted in front of the pricked ears and combed to the sides above the large eyes and bridge of the nose splashed in cream.

     

     

     

    An Imperial Jade 'Ba Zheng Mao Nian Zhi Bao' Seal Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period Sells for $3,498,500#3. An Imperial Jade ‘Ba Zheng Mao Nian Zhi Bao’ Seal Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period Sold for $3,498,500.
    Description: Of square form, the seal surmounted by a pair of well-carved addorsed dragons, each with bulging eyes, flaring nostrils, gaping jaws and bared sharp teeth, the two scaled bodies crouching back on their haunches and pierced through the center with an aperture, the square seal deeply and crisply carved with the characters Ba zheng mao nian zhi bao (Treasure of concern over phenomenon at eighty) the stone of gray-celadon color with opaque mottling and striking dark-gray cloud swirls, with russet enhancing the horns and spines.  Length 2 1/4 in., 6 cm, Width 2 1/4 in., 6 cm.

     

     

     

     

    http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.645.html/2012/fine-classical-chinese-paintings-n08874#4. Seclusion Amid Mountains And Streams Paintings Sold for $3,218,500. 
    Description: Signed Jianjiang, with three seals of the artist, hong ren, yi pian bin xin and ji zhui. Titleslip by Cheng Lingsun, signed Lingsun. Frontispiece by Xu Heng, signed Xu Heng, with two seals, xu heng, sheng qiu. Colophons by Xu Heng, dated yimao (1939), the first lunar month, signed Tongzhou ren Xu Heng, with five seals, xu heng (2), xu heng, sheng qiu, xu shi sheng qiu; and Wang Lüben, signed Jiuyou, and with three seals, zi cheng yi jia, yi nai fu, jiu you
    Ink on paper, handscroll.  14.8 by 347 cm. 5 3/4 by 136 5/8 in.
     

     

    The Zuo Ce Huan You an Important Bronze Wine Vessel Early Western Zhou Dynasty, 10th Century BC Sells for $ 3,077,000#5. The Zuo Ce Huan You an Important Bronze Wine Vessel Early Western Zhou Dynasty, 10th Century BC Sold for $ 3,077,000.
    Description: Well cast of oval section, the slightly compressed pear-shaped body raised on a splayed pedestal foot encircled by a bowstring band, cast in high relief on each side of the neck with a tapir head between two bowstring bands interrupted by loops attached to the tapir-head terminals of the overhead arch handle, the slightly waisted domed cover with wedge-shaped tabs projecting from either end and decorated with a similar band, echoing the designs on the body, surmounted by a ring-shaped knob.

     

     

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