Rare Qianlong period painting headlines upcoming Hong Kong auction series

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Asian Art Week is led by one of the great imperial Qianlong period paintings in private hands – The Blue Goats by the Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione and the Chinese court artist Jin Tingbiao.

The painting, unseen for close to a century, carries an estimate of HK$60m-150m (£6m-15m) in a singl…

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