Chinese handscroll sells for 10 times estimate at £225,000 setting house record for Chiswick Auctions
A handscroll measuring over thirty metres in length by Qing artist Xu Naigu (1785 – 1835) made £225,000 hammer against an estimate of £15,000-20,000 this morning (November 13) – a house record for the auctioneer.
Bidders at Chiswick Auctions’ Fine Chinese Paintings sale competed on the phone and in the room, sta…