Detail: This March, Sotheby’s Important Chinese Art auction will feature an impressive and diverse array of porcelains, early ceramics, jades, and furniture from important private and museum collections. Leading this sale is an exceptionally rare archaic jade ceremonial axe from the esteemed Guennol Collection; important huanghuali furniture from the personal collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung; and a large Qianlong period white jade ‘prunus and lingzhi’ vase and cover, previously in the collection of Aisin Gioro Puwei, Prince Gong. The sale also features a comprehensive selection of over sixty Kangxi porcelains from the renowned London dealer Marchant, as well as an exquisite group of rare imperial porcelains collected in the 1880s, being deaccessioned by a Northeastern Institution.