Romanee-Conti at $474,000 Is Auction Record for Wine Case
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Twelve bottles of Romanee-Conti sold for HK$3.675 million ($474,000), leading records set at auctions by Christie’s International Plc in Hong Kong that raised HK$1.35 billion after three days.
The winning bid for the 1978 Burgundy on Nov. 23 by a Chinese buyer smashed the previous $345,000 auction record for a case of wine, while a record HK$70.7 million was bid for a painting by Zhu Dequn, the highest amount paid for the Chinese-French artist’s work. Christie’s will offer about HK$2 billion of items in the six-day sale.