NEW YORK.- Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, held the series of Asian Art Sales at Rockefeller Center with Art for the Way of Tea, a unique sale completed devoted to Tea-ceremony related items. The collection, which was brought together over several decades by a private Asian collector, spans a time zone of four hundred years (16th through 19th centuries), consists of 40 lots and is expected to realize in excess of three million dollars.

A Massive White Porcelain Jar, Choson Period (18th Century), sold for $1,272,000. Pine Trees in Moonlight attributed to Hasegawa Tohaku sold for $880,000. A rectangular stoneware bowl with bridge handle, Mino ware, Momoyama period, sold for $300,000. Kim Yusong (1725-?), painter; Sung Dai Joog, Calligrapher, Landscapes and calligraphy sold for $240,000.

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