To print, your print settings should be ‘fit to page size’ or ‘fit to printable area’ or similar. Problems? See our guide: https://atg.news/2zaGmwp 7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2485 | antiquestradegazette.com | 27 March 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D koopman rare art V A I R N T antiques trade G T H E KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 www.koopman.art Silver Vaults to remain but Left: the Yongle period blue and white lotus bud Koopman plans bowl sold for $580,000 (£412,000) at Sotheby’s Mayfair move New York on March 17. by Laura Chesters The future of The London Silver Vaults on Chancery Lane is secure thanks to a new landlord but long-time resident Koopman Rare Art is leaving for Mayfair. Flexible office space provider The Office Group (TOG) bought the building around 18 months ago. Unlike the previous owner (Aviva), the group plans to significantly refurbish and redevelop the 150,000 sq ft block rather than pull the building down. This means the tenants of The London Silver Vaults – around 40 dealers – can remain. $35 yard sale find stars ‘Business as usual’ A representative from the Vaults tenancy in Asia Week New York association committee said: “Our leases end at the end of March and tenants are currently Bought for just $35 at a yard sale in Connecticut last year, newly built porcelain kilns of Jingdezhen – perfecting a negotiating new leases. this small Yongle (1403-24) blue and white ‘lotus bud’ bowl smooth porcelain body, an unctuous silky glaze and a recipe “It was a totally different situation with proved one of the star lots of Asia Week New York. for deep blue cobalt decoration. the previous landlord when we were in Given an estimate of $300,000-500,000 at Sotheby’s on The shape known as lotus bud (lianzi) or chicken heart danger. We now have a new landlord who March 17, it sold at $580,000/£412,000 ($721,800 including (jixin) would seem to be purely Chinese. Alongside lotus, will be doing work to the upper building but buyer’s premium). peony, chrysanthemum and pomegranate, blossoms are are happy to keep the vaults. It will be Shortly after making the purchase near New Haven, trefoil motifs borrowed from earlier Khorasan metalwork – business as usual when we can reopen.” the buyer sent photographs of the 6¼in (16cm) bowl to the result of regular contact with the Islamic world. However, Koopman Rare Art, which Sotheby’s Asian art department. “We instinctively had a McAteer added: “The result epitomises the incredible, operates from the ground floor gallery above very, very good feeling about it,” said Angela McAteer, head once-in-a-lifetime discovery stories that we dream about the vaults as well as renting vaults in the of Sotheby’s Chinese art department in New York. as specialists in the Chinese art field... it is a reminder basement, has decided to leave the area and It was later confirmed as one of only a handful of that precious works of art remain hidden in plain sight just will open a new gallery in Dover Street, companion pieces known, including examples in the British waiting to be found.” Mayfair, later this year. Koopman has been Museum and the V&A. Another was sold at Christie’s Hong See Pick of the Week on page 6 for more highlights from in Chancery Lane since the late 1950s. Kong in 2007 for HK$700,000 (£70,000). Asia Week New York. 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If you think small you significant”. It told ATG: creating a new work space for 41 years, since the age of 18, will be small. During the “Within the City, there are our members above an iconic said: “The landlords are pandemic we looked for the some specialist retail uses and institution.” working with the dealers and opportunity of vacant premises premises that cannot be found Alistair Subba Row, senior they want them to stay which is in Mayfair and found this elsewhere.