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...Price paid at auction for the pink dress Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast at Tiffany...
...sale has calmed what threatened to be a highly controversial auction in Hong Kong next month. Sotheby's originally planned to sell the bronze - which was previously owned by a collector in Taiwan - at auction along with 30 pieces that were mostly traced to Qing palaces. A Chinese government-linked organization responsible for recovering looted cultural artifacts opposed selling the head at auction because there was no assurance that it would end up in China...
...possibility that the bronze could have also ended up outside China angered nationalists. But Sotheby's argued that it would likely have ended up on the mainland even if it went to auction. "We were quite confident that the object there stood a very good chance of falling into the hands of a Chinese collector, bearing in mind the search and demand and interest of mainland Chinese collectors for important works of Chinese art, especially those of great historical significance," says Kevin Ching, CEO of Sotheby's Asia. For China's wealthy new elite, buying Chinese artifacts from abroad...
...horse will be displayed October 4-8 in Hong Kong as part of Sotheby's auction preview. Then it moves to Ho's Hotel Grand Lisboa in Macau. Its final destination hasn't been announced, though there is speculation it will end up in the Poly Museum with the other heads. "If the statue of the horse, the monkey, the ox, the tiger and the pig join together again after being scattered for 147 years, it will be an exciting feat," Niu said. "We are full of expectation...
Sales of bank-owned repossessions like the one auctioneer Hudson & Marshall is hosting in Detroit later this month are sellout events (700 properties will be on the block, vs. 130 this time last year), but the real money is made by people who get their hands on houses before the banks do. By outbidding the bank at a courthouse foreclosure auction, return on investment can get as high as 25% to 35%. Make sure you are incredibly well versed in your state's real estate laws and prepared for tasks like evicting a family...