Five-piece altar garniture became a family fixture

This rare Qianlong mark and period gold-ground famille-rose five-piece altar garniture (wu gong) carries an estimate of $600,000-800,000 at Sotheby’s on September 21.

It is thought to have been acquired in China about a century ago by Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935),…

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