Jades take sale to new record total for regional auction
CONTRIBUTING handsomely to the largest grossing sale ever conducted by a regional auctioneer, this 7in (18cm) high Chinese Imperial white jade bell sold for £2m hammer at Woolley & Wallis of Salisbury on May 19 – the first day of a two-catalogue Asian art sale.
The bell or ghanta, representing the female aspect of wisdom and supreme knowledge, ranks among the …