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Global art market valued at €43bn
15 March 2013The latest TEFAF market report values the global art market at €43 billion for the last year. The figure was 7% down the previous year, but the fall is wholly explained by a €3.5bn decline in sales in China.

UK auction houses head for China with £8m consignment
11 March 2013Fine art, antiques and collectables worth £8m, consigned from the UK by a consortium of regional auctioneers, are currently on a container ship heading to China.
UK salerooms to stage first sale in China
22 January 2013The Association of Accredited Auctioneers (Triple-A), founded in 2012 by 19 UK auctioneers to attract Chinese buyers, are to hold an auction of Western fine art and antiques in China.

Rarities reinforce Leica as the world's most sought-after camera
03 December 2012Leica cameras proved one of the must-have auction prizes in recent sales with record prices at Westlicht in Vienna and Bonhams Hong Kong.
Christie's win naming battle
26 November 2012Christie’s have won a High Court bid in Hong Kong to prevent another auction house benefiting from using a name that was sufficiently close to theirs to cause confusion.
Chinese art market concerns raise question of regulation
05 November 2012The Chinese government is considering regulation of the country’s burgeoning but problematic art market.
New wreck discovered in South China Sea
01 October 2012Fishermen are reported to have discovered another ancient shipwreck, complete with cargo, in the South China Sea near Vung Tau off the South East coast of Vietnam.

Export ban hits restorers using rattan
18 September 2012The antiques trade could soon fall victim to the global rattan shortage prompted by an Indonesian export ban.
Hong Kong move for China Guardian as obstacles to mainland prospects gather
30 July 2012Beijing-based auction house China Guardian is reported to be launching a sales programme in Hong Kong this autumn.

Sotheby’s total down in Hong Kong despite record for Song ceramic
16 April 2012SOTHEBY’S concluded their latest Hong Kong series of sales on April 4, raising a premium-inclusive total of over HK$2.46bn (£212.5m) for the eight sales containing over 2780 lots.

Christie’s and Sotheby’s galleries raise the stakes in Hong Kong
10 April 2012LARGE new gallery spaces in Hong Kong look set to provide the battleground in the competition for private treaty sales between Sotheby’s and Christie’s.

Records in Hong Kong despite Chinese credit squeeze
12 December 2011THE selectivity in the Chinese ceramics and works of art market seen in London in early November was repeated during Christie’s and Bonhams’ latest Asian series in Hong Kong.
Spink expand in Hong Kong
21 November 2011SPINK have acquired Hong Kong-based Phila China, a philatelic auction house founded by Anna Lee.

UK auctioneers forge Chinese links via epaiLive
07 November 2011A NEW live auction platform which will give UK auctioneers direct access to Chinese bidders has been launched in Beijing.
Stanley Gibbons expand into Asia
10 October 2011COLLECTABLES specialists Stanley Gibbons have opened a new office in Hong Kong in a bid to stake a claim in the Asian market for coins, military medals, stamps and historical documents.

£35m scroll underlines strength of Chinese art market
06 June 2011IT took 50 bids and half an hour to auction this RMB370m (£35m) scroll, by Qi Baishi (1864-1957) at Beijing's China Guardian on May 22 – the latest demonstration of the breadth of mainland demand for modern Chinese paintings by the country's most acclaimed artists.

Record Hong Kong series tackles non-payment issue
03 May 2011SOTHEBY’S latest Asian series represented an all-time high for the firm in Hong Kong.
Beijing auction house opens office in US
04 April 2011CHINA’s fourth largest auction house, the Beijing Council International Auction Company, have opened an office in the US with the aim of sourcing material to sell in mainland China.
China pushes UK art market into third place
14 March 2011CHINA has pushed the United Kingdom into third place as a player in the world art market and is now second only to the United States.
Lloyd Webber wine sale shows Far Eastern thirst
01 February 2011DEMAND for fine wines showed no sign of abating at the latest round of auctions in Hong Kong.

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