antiques
China’s Global Antique Auction Squeeze To Boost Contemporary Art
Yet another auction controversy regarding the sale of Chinese antiques at an international auction house has illustrated the difficulties surrounding this auction segment. Read More
Chinese Auction Houses Fight For Credibility
Though China's domestic art and antique auction market is now the world's largest, the home-grown auction industry continues to suffer from a dearth of credibility, damaged by poor authentication standards, a lack of regulation, rampant non-payment and untested upstarts crowding the market. Read More
Hong Kong Jeweler Wallace Chan Highlighted At Lagerfeld’s Paris Biennale
Next month, famed fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld will turn his attention to the 26th Biennale des Antiquaires, recreating a detailed Parisian street scene stocked with billions in jewelry, art and antiques. Read More
Blue-Chip Chinese Art, French Wine Drive Sales Success At Sotheby’s Hong Kong Spring Auctions
With the highly anticipated Sotheby's spring auctions winding down in Hong Kong, it looks like our expectations for 2012 remain on target. Read More
Asian Collectors Flex Muscles At Elizabeth Taylor Auction Series In New York
Perhaps more than at any other high-profile Western auction series in recent memory, the presence of Asian buyers was highly significant at this auction series, with these bidders more than holding their own even against American institutional buyers. Read More-
Beijing Auction House China Guardian Set To Launch New York Office
As Chinese auction houses look to set up shop overseas, what we're seeing is less of a desire to compete with Sotheby's and Christie's, and more of a focus on using these offices to source rare and valuable Chinese art for auctions back home. Read More -
Pottery PR: Steve Wynn Unveils “Returned” Antique Chinese Vases In Macau
This week, the art-collecting, Picasso-destroying casino mogul Steve Wynn engaged in a little "pottery PR," returning a collection of antique Chinese vases to the country in a ceremony at his Wynn Macau. Read More 
Event Watch: Fine Art Asia 2011 (Hong Kong, October 3-7)
Running for its seventh year, Fine Art Asia 2011 will once again bring its combination of contemporary and antique, East and West, to Hong Kong from October 3-7. Read More-
Chinese Collectors Buoyed Smaller Auction Houses In 2010
It turns out that a rising tide of Chinese collectors lifted all ships (in the auction world) last year. Read More -
Records Tumble At Sotheby’s Asian Art Auction Series In Hong Kong
Sotheby's pulled in a record-breaking grand total of HK$3.08 billion (US$400 million) this week in Hong Kong, more than its spring and autumn 2009 auctions combined. Read More
