Detail: Auction: Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 9:30am ET
Previews: March 19–21 & 23–24, 10am-5pm; March 22, 12-5pm

Sotheby’s New York is honored to present the inaugural Chinese Art auction at the Breuer building. The sale offers a remarkable journey through Chinese art, from early ritual bronzes to Qing imperial masterpieces. Highlights include a distinguished group of Tang and Song ceramics from an important American private collection; a rare Song dynasty Guanyao lobed dish formerly in the Frederick M. Meyer Collection; a magnificent Xuande mark and period blue and white jar previously held by the Chang Foundation; a striking dappled black-glazed bowing Ferghana horse from the Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection; as well as an Early Western Zhou dynasty four-handled archaic bronze ritual food vessel from a Colorado family collection. The sale also includes a selection of Ming and Qing porcelain, archaic bronzes, jades, lacquerware, scholars’ objects, classical furniture, a group of ink rubbings from the Wu Family Shrine, and historical documents relating to the Xi’an Incident, presented on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of this pivotal moment in modern Chinese history.