PARIS — A rare Chinese Buddha statue, found in a French family home and part of a set thought to have been lost, is expected to fetch 1 million euros (S$1.44 million) when it is auctioned on June 13 in Paris. According to auction house Bonhams, the piece is a very rare wood figure, a religious work depicting the Buddhist...
PARIS — A rare Chinese Buddha statue, found in a French family home and part of a set thought to have been lost, is expected to fetch 1 million euros when it is auctioned on June 13 in Paris.
Over a metre high, the piece was last sold in the 1930s to a family in Boulogne, a suburb near Paris. The family wishes to remain anonymous.The head of Bonhams Chinese art Caroline Schulten said the family was unaware of its value until they called her up for an estimate. "What has happened since then is that it has lost the fingers of the one hand... because they were clearly there when it was sold in 1932. So in between, I was told there were children playing football around it, so things happened, quite clearly," Schulten added.
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