Former Buddhist Art Collection of Baron Antoine Allard, the "Red Baron", to be Offered at Sotheby's

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A fine and rare large gilt-bronze figure of Buddha Shakyamuni

FRANCE---Almost 400 works of art from China, Tibet, Nepal and Japan will be offered in the Sotheby's Asian Art Sale in Paris on June 10th 2014. Many of the pieces come from private European collections and have never been offered on the market before. They comprise fine Chinese ceramics, jades and scholar's objects as well as Tibetan and Nepalese religious paintings and sculpture, and Japanese lacquerwork. Asian works of art formerly in the collection of Baron Antoine Allard (1907 - 1981). [link]