Chinese bowl sells for record-breaking $25 million at auction.
A rare porcelain bowl from the 18th century, decorated at Beijing's imperial workshops, sold for over $25 million at a Hong Kong auction. The bowl, part of a tradition known as "falangcai," depicts two swallows, a blooming apricot tree, and a willow, and is among a small group of items representing "the peak of painting on porcelain, an artistry that was never surpassed." Other Chinese art sales fetched a combined $208.5 million, including a Ming Dynasty blue and white "Dragon" ewer that sold for $13.7 million and a 1973 painting by Zhang Daqian that fetched $32 million.