The £150,000 doorstop with an Imperial past
The latest Asian art sale at Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet was led by this massive 9½in (24.5cm) high Chinese calligrapher’s brush pot dating to the late 18th or early 19th century.
The pot, being held in the picture below by Yexue Li, who works in Sworders' Asian art department, i…