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Article: The China club. (popularity of Chinese furnishings)
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- Town & Country
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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Though classical Chinese furniture of the 16th and 17th centuries has been quietly collected in the U.S. for decades, attention-getting auctions at both Sotheby's and Christie's last fall have suddenly turned it into a hot commodity. Prices have soared to levels previously reserved for signed 18th-century French pieces; at Christie's, collectors including Disney's Mike Ovitz and painter Brice Marden watched as one late-Ming-period horseshoe-back chair brought more than half-a-million dollars. Next month the drumbeat continues with the second annual International Asian Art Fair in New York City (March n to 26, at the Seventh Regiment Armory). All eyes, it seems, are now on ...
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