Chinese vase fetches more than £9 million

An Imperial Chinese vase thought to have been kept at the royal palace in Beijing’s Forbidden City, was sold for more than £9 million at auction at Bonhams auction house in London. The buyer, from the Chinese mainland, paid £9,001,250, making the vase...

An Imperial Chinese vase thought to have been kept at the royal palace in Beijing’s Forbidden City, was sold for more than £9 million at auction at Bonhams auction house in London.

The buyer, from the Chinese mainland, paid £9,001,250, making the vase the highest-priced Asian artwork to be sold in London this year.

Its pre-sale estimate was between £5 million and £8 million but it went for a higher price following a bidding war between three separate phone buyers. The final figure includes the buyer’s premium.

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