Photo: Sotheby's
A delicate porcelain bowl, less than 11 cm in diameter, sold for more than $25 million in Hong Kong.
Described by auction house Sotheby's as "very important", the bowl comes from a rare group of ceramics decorated in the imperial workshops of Beijing in the 18th century.
The bowl was produced during the time of the Yongzheng Emperor, who ruled China from 1722 to 1735.
Photo: Sotheby's
Sold for $25.3 million, the bowl features two swallows, a blossoming apricot tree and a willow tree.
The design also has an excerpt from a poem thought to have been commissioned by Yongzheng's Ming dynasty ancestor, Emperor Wanl.
