Pursuits
Asians Battle for Jade at Record $168 Million Chinese Auctions
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The sale of an 18-century white-jade carving has rounded off a series of auctions of Chinese art in the U.K. that raised a record 105 million pounds ($168 million).
The carving of a deer with its young fetched 3.8 million pounds at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury, west England. The price was the second-highest of the series after the 51.6 million pounds for a Qianlong Imperial vase, an auction record for Chinese art, also set at a regional saleroom, Bainbridges in west London.