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Aug 8, 2024 | 
sothebys.com | Denise Tsui |Sotheby’s Asia
You are standing atop a long flight of stairs. Your heart steadies, readying body and mind to descend. What you see is an inversion of the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Here, the tunnel is the light. And beyond is darkness. Step down, down, down – and at last you arrive in the Grotto, the dramatic central ground floor space of Sotheby’s new Maison, a building that’s as much of an artwork as anything hanging in the galleries.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
sothebys.com | Denise Tsui |Sotheby’s Asia
Jade has held a position of reverence and paramount importance in the long-standing history of Chinese culture for thousands of years. Used as weaponry, tools and ritual items, ornamental and also as ceremonial pieces for burial, worked jades in China precede bronze and even the written word. Although jade working is found in the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica and later spreading to the South Pacific, Persia and beyond, there is perhaps no other civilisation that has seen the same advancement.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
sothebys.com | Denise Tsui |Sotheby’s Asia
Across jewellery and Chinese ceramics, two sold-out auctions demonstrate a strong market demand for trusted provenance. Read on for the highlights of the week. Yesterday concluded The Hong Kong Sales, which saw more than 2500 works of art and objects come under the hammer over eight days and white glove auctions realised for two single-owner collections.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
sothebys.com | Denise Tsui |Sotheby’s Asia
Plus new Asia benchmarks set for masters of Surrealism. Read on for results of The Now Evening Auction and Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction. Rising contemporary stars shone brightly and Western works of art achieved new benchmarks during the Hong Kong Sales’ marquee evening, comprising The Now Evening Auction and Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
sothebys.com | Denise Tsui |Sotheby’s Asia
The Singapore-based collector and entrepreneur shares the most treasured timepieces in his collection, his outlook on the luxury watch market and reveals his affinity for KAWS sculptures, Bearbricks, and other collectibles. As 2024 gets underway, we spoke to entrepreneur and collector Jenssen Yu (@epochwrist) about his art collection and his love of watches.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
sothebys.com | Denise Tsui |Sotheby’s Asia
It has been an unusually busy November week around the globe for Sotheby’s Wine and Spirits. On 24 and 25 November – while turkeys and pumpkin pies were the centerpiece for many at Thanksgiving dinners – the long-awaited first tranche of wines from the revered cellar of visionary epicurean and aesthete Pierre Chen came under the hammer across a marathon two-day auction at Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
sothebys.com | Denise Tsui |Sotheby’s Asia
“Jade has life,” declares Dr Frank Chan matter-of-factly. We are seated in one of several living room spaces inside his home in Hong Kong. It is an overcast autumn afternoon and Chan is giving me a short, albeit deep, introduction into his principles of jade collecting. It may only scratch the surface of Chan’s knowledge but it left me with plenty to mull over.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
sothebys.com | Denise Tsui |Sotheby’s Asia
Across three days and seven live sales this past weekend, as Typhoon Koinu – skirting as close as 70km to the city on Sunday night – picked up speed and thrashed through Hong Kong with strong winds and heavy rain, Chinese art thrived through it all. The sale of Chinese Works of Art, Chinese Classical Paintings and Modern Chinese Paintings – which rounded out Sotheby’s Hong Kong 50th Anniversary Autumn Sales – collectively achieved HK$1.02 billion (US$129.93 million).
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
sothebys.com | Denise Tsui |Sotheby’s Asia
In a back-to-back sequence of five marquee auctions inside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the Sotheby’s Hong Kong 50th Anniversary Autumn Sales realised a total of HK$1.33 billion (US$170 million). Three quarters of bidders hailed from Asia, a signal that strength in the region remains strong.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
sothebys.com | Denise Tsui |Sotheby’s Asia
In the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), following the end of Mongul rule under the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), the imperial court of the Hongwu Emperor (1368-1398) applied strict control on what was a thriving and free flowing porcelain trade that saw wares exported to elsewhere in Asia and as far reaching as Europe. Production was highly organised, major kiln sites spanned several provinces, and an assembly line style of manufacture was implemented.
