Gibson’s final address

Anyone who picked up Sotheby’s latest Chinese catalogue for their November 7 sale in London could not have failed to notice the stunning blue and white Qianlong moonflask on the catalogue cover, the piece that topped the sale when it sold for £2.5m.

But the keen-eyed might have noticed something else - that the final lot, a suit of Qing ceremonial …

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