An specialist in
Chinese ceramics shows a pair of
rare models of pagodas believed to
have been made in the late
Qianlong period around 1750 to 1800.
Christie's is selling 300 lots of
Chinese ceramics and works of art
today, the beginning of its Asian
Art Week in London. Standing 263
centimeters tall, the pair could fetch
more than US$460,000. Porcelain pagodas
of such a size are extremely
rare. In 2008, a fraction of such
a pagoda fetched 108,000 pounds
(US$165,000).
