Jade chicken cup flies to £19,000
UK: When a private UK vendor consigned a Chinese celadon jade cup to Christie’s South Kensington (17.5/10% buyer’s premium) at £400-600, he could not have hoped in his wildest dreams to sell it for almost 50 times the low estimate.
So it was a fairy tale come true for the vendor when it brought £19,000 in an Asian Decorative Arts …