YSL auction set to fetch €300m
The judge ordered the China-linked group, APACE, that sought to prevent the sale to pay €1,000 in fines each to Christie’s and to the firm of Pierre Berge.
The bronze heads of a rabbit and a rat disappeared from the Imperial Palace on the outskirts of Beijing when French and British forces invaded at the close of the second Opium War in 1860. The bronzes date to the Qing Dynasty (1644). They are expected to sell for up to €10m each.
