{"id":1600,"date":"2017-10-06T00:35:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T00:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2017-10-06T00:58:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T00:58:06","slug":"song-dynasty-bowl-shatters-world-record-for-chinese-ceramics-fetches-37-7-million-in-hk-sale-stefanie-mcintyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=1600","title":{"rendered":"Song dynasty bowl shatters world record for Chinese ceramics, fetches $37.7 million in HK sale Stefanie McIntyre"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1601\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644.jpg 800w, wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-300x200.jpg 300w, wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-768x512.jpg 768w, wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-414x276.jpg 414w, wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-470x313.jpg 470w, wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-640x426.jpg 640w, wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-130x86.jpg 130w, wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/\u062a\u0646\u0632\u064a\u0644-187x124.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>HONG KONG (Reuters) &#8211; A nearly 900-year-old porcelain Song dynasty bowl smashed the world auction record for Chinese ceramics on Tuesday, selling for HK$294.3 million ($37.68 million) at a Sotheby\u2019s sale in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The small, blue-green item broke the previous record, also set in a sale in Hong Kong, when a 500-year-old imperial \u201cchicken\u201d cup from the Ming dynasty Chenghua period sold for HK$281.2 million ($36.0 million) in 2014, Sotheby\u2019s said.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-cm (5-inch) bowl, used to wash brushes, was fired in the famed Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) kilns in Ruzhou, and was sold to an anonymous buyer after a 20-minute bidding battle.<\/p>\n<p>Such \u201cRu guanyao\u201d wares &#8212; known for their intense blue-green glaze and \u201cice-crackle\u201d pattern &#8212; are extremely rare because the kiln in China\u2019s central Henan province had a brief production run of only around two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The bowl, from the Chang Foundation in Taiwan\u2019s Hongxi Museum, is one of only four known pieces of Ru heirlooms in private hands. Since 1940, no more than six Ru vessels have ever appeared at auction, according to ceramics expert Regina Krahl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had in last 20 years a huge sort of influx of mainland Chinese buyers. We\u2019re filling the room with new prices, new interest and that\u2019s what\u2019s really driven the price today,\u201d said Sotheby\u2019s Asia deputy chairman Nicolas Chow, who declined to reveal the nationality of the buyer.<\/p>\n<p>Writing by Venus Wu; Editing by James Pomfret and Kim Coghill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG (Reuters) &#8211; A nearly 900-year-old porcelain Song dynasty bowl smashed the world auction record for Chinese ceramics on Tuesday, selling for HK$294.3 million ($37.68 million) at a Sotheby\u2019s sale in Hong Kong. The small, blue-green item broke the previous record, also set in a sale in Hong Kong, when a 500-year-old imperial \u201cchicken\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}