'Swallows bowl' auctioned

(AFP)
Updated: 2006-11-29 10:45

Collector and purchaser Alice Cheng holds a famille rose "swallows bowl" of the period 1736-1795 after the tiny bowl smashed the record for a piece of Chinese ceramic art at an auction when it was sold for 151.3 million Hong Kong dollars(US$19.3 million).[AFP]