Chinese Bowl Sells for Record-Breaking $25.3M at Auction.
A Chinese antique bowl, crafted in the mid-18th century during the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, has been sold for $25.3 million at a Sotheby's auction. The bowl is an example of falangcai ceramics, among the rarest and most celebrated imperial ceramic wares of the Qing dynasty. The porcelain pieces from this group were fired in the kilns of the city of Jingdezhen, then brought to the imperial workshops within Beijing's Forbidden City. The bowl changed hands multiple times over the years, most recently landing in the possession of collector Alice Cheng, who scooped it up in 2006 for $19.3 million.