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Rare Song Dynasty painting sells for $675K, setting Heritage Auctions Asian art record
Chinese School, After Li Song (Song Dynasty), Riders on Horseback, Song Dynasty. Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 44 x 10-1/2 inches.
DALLAS, TX
.- An extremely rare painting from the Song Dynasty (960-1279 A.D.) of polo players riding donkeys soared to $675,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Fine & Decorative Asian Art Auction to $1,337,455 in sales Dec. 11.
The lot accounted for just over half of the total result from the auction, and set a record for the highest price ever paid for any lot sold in Heritage s Asian Art department. The previous record was Wu Changshuo Peony, Bottle Gourds, and Loquats, Dingzi, 1917, which sold in March 2019 for $399,000.
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by Doreen Carvajal
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
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