NEW YORK CITY — Bonhams concluded its Asia Week with a total of $16.96 million, the highest total ever achieved for Asia Week at Bonhams New York, realized over six sales from March 19 to 21.
The Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian art sale on March 19 and the evening sale of the Maitri collection on March 20 totaled $11.2 million with the leading work achieving $1,392,500 – a Thirteenth/Fourteenth Century gilt copper figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, one of the largest Buddha bronzes thus far attributed to the lost Khasa Malla kingdom of Western Tibet and Western Nepal.
Watch for our roundup of Asia Week New York auctions and events in a forthcoming issue.