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Rare Chinese encyclopedias sell for £7 million at Paris auction house – International Business Times UK
The two encyclopedia volumes were from the Ming Dynasty.
A pair of rare Chinese encyclopedia volumes from the Ming Dynasty was sold at an auction on Tuesday for a hefty price tag of more than £7 million. The ancient Chinese artefacts unexpectedly fetched more than 1,000 times their estimated price. The pieces were originally priced at £4,000 – £7,000 at a Paris based auction house.
According toBeaussant Lefèvre, the auction house responsible for the sale, the rare find is said to have had about 2,000 scholars working on them between the years 1404 -1…
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