German all-time auction record: Sino-Tibetan bronze takes €9.5m bid at Nagel
Stuttgart auction house Nagel called it ‘beyond doubt one of the most important gilt-bronzes to appear on the market for many years’ – and the monumental Ming dynasty Sino-Tibetan figure of the wrathful deity Vajrabhairava did not disappoint.
It became the most expensive work of art ever sold in Germany when it made €9.5m (£8.64m) on June …