A home-grown market for bonsai
Garden statuary is now an accepted part of the antiques market, but what about plants and trees? Auctioneers are prepared to sell anything that can remotely be classified as collectable these days, but there is a genuine case for admitting bonsai trees – works of art organic and antique – to the salerooms.
However, there have only been two traditional auctions of Bonsai in the Western World since the turn…