Chinese-taste wares still dominate, with quality and rarity overcoming any shortcomings over condition
PROFESSOR Edward T. Hall (1924-2001) was a born collector, amassing over a million cigarette cards as a schoolboy at Eton College and later building a celebrated collection of clocks and scientific instruments that was sold at Christie’s King Street last July.
As well as his love for clocks, he spent 50 years forming a vast collection of Ming and Qing dynasty…