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USD 3.5 Million Tang Dynasty Silver Bowl and Other Highlights from September Asia Week New York!

Oct 21, 2019
7 min

USD 3.5 Million Tang Dynasty Silver Bowl and Other Highlights from September Asia Week New York!

Hope everyone is enjoying the autumn season! I've been traveling a lot the past few weeks so have been a little late in posting my trip to the September 2019 edition of Asia Week New York. If you follow me on Instagram, you would have seen some of the highlight objects I was examining during my auction house visits. I wasn't even CLOSE to posting everything I saw, so this blog features more examples of the Asian Art items I really liked. As many of you know, Asia Week New Yor

Summer News and Chinese Art Highlights from the Spring of 2019!

Aug 26, 2019
10 min

Summer News and Chinese Art Highlights from the Spring of 2019!

I can't believe we're already halfway through summer! The past couple of months have been fairly busy for me with the Toronto Asian Art sales and a trip to Vancouver at the end of June, numerous appraisals and valuations in July, AND the completion of my latest Chinese Art auction market trends report for Orientations magazine. This article will be published in their September/October issue and will be available in most museum bookstores by the end of August. As usual, I will

Three Months of Travel! Chinese Art Highlights from New York, Hong Kong and London!

Nov 24, 2018
9 min

Three Months of Travel! Chinese Art Highlights from New York, Hong Kong and London!

I'm back in Toronto! It's been an incredible three months. Since mid-September I have been to New York, Hong Kong, Vancouver, New York (again), and London! When I left my Toronto auction house job three years ago, I didn't think I would be traveling this much, but it has been quite exhilarating! It's always a pleasure to visit the large international Asian Art sales room, and the quality of the objects I am able to examine these days is completely stunning! During my travels

Hong Kong Heritage Museum - T. T. Tsui Galleries and Cantonese Opera!

Jan 19, 2018
5 min

Hong Kong Heritage Museum - T. T. Tsui Galleries and Cantonese Opera!

Happy 2018! The last two months have been fairly busy with work - hence the gap between posts. I've been fortunate enough to pick up a few more appraisal assignments and I just completed my next market trends report for Orientations Magazine in Hong Kong. The latter will be published in their March New York Asia Week edition. For this forthcoming article, in addition to strong prices in the Chinese Art market for classical furniture, Imperial porcelain and jade carvings, I tr

Sizzling Spring Sales in Hong Kong

Jun 30, 2017
3 min

Sizzling Spring Sales in Hong Kong

The past month has been really busy! The international Chinese Art auctions are winding down for the season so I have been keeping track of all the sales in Paris, Beijing and Hong Kong over the past couple of weeks. The Chinese Art market is still going at a steady pace with still strong prices in painting, porcelain, furniture and works of art. At the same time, I have been finalizing my summer schedule and working on my next market trends report for Orientations magazine.

Elegant Earthenware at the Art Institute of Chicago

Aug 25, 2016
2 min

Elegant Earthenware at the Art Institute of Chicago

With the steep decline in prices for Chinese earthenware ceramics over the past twenty years, many people have dismissed this important medium. They were extremely popular from the 1960's until the mid 1990's, and were mostly collected by American and European families. However, what was once a rarity in the Chinese art market because of a limited supply, China, as it was beginning to open up in the late 1980's, was able to export an almost endless supply to the international