Metropolitan Museum of Art sells off Irving gift at New York Asia Week auction

Sotheby’s opened its September Asia Week auctions in New York on September 10 with the $8.3m sale of Chinese art consigned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The 127 lots had formed part of the Florence and Herbert Irving gift of 1275 pieces made to the mu…

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