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'My highlight of 2017' – This hand-painted dragon scroll by Chen Rong (c. 1200–1266) sold for $49,967,500, over 40 times its low estimate and the highest price of the season.
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The scroll was originally created as part of a rainmaking ritual. ‘Dragons have long symbolised water,’ explains Elizabeth Hammer, our specialist in Chinese paintings in New York. .
‘Funnily enough, whenever we showed this dragon scroll to a client there would be a heavy rainstorm. It's as if they were showing off!’
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Chen Rong (13th century) as catalogued in Shiqu Baoji, ‘Six dragons’. Sold for $48,967,500, including buyer’s premium.
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Important Chinese Art from the Fujita Museum – 15 March 2017 at Christie’s New York
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