In a Sotheby's catalog essay about next week's chicken-cup sale, ceramics expert Regina Krahl wrote that former Sotheby's Chairman Julian Thompson contested that the two examples at the Palace Museum in Beijing are fakes.

But one of those four will be going up for sale on April 8 at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong and is estimated to fetch as much as US$ 38.5 million.

但这四只鸡缸杯中将有一只现身4月8日的香港苏富比（Sotheby）拍卖会，估价高达3850万美元。

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The De Beers Millennium Jewel 4, a 10.10 carat vivid blue diamond, broke the record for the most expensive piece of jewellery to be sold at auction in Asia yesterday at Sotheby's in Hong Kong.

这枚名为De Beers Millennium Jewel4的鲜彩蓝钻重达10.10克拉，在香港苏富比上被拍卖，打破了亚洲最昂贵珠宝的拍卖记录。

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The association continues to this day: In addition to his son Robert, who is a director of the company, his stepdaughter, Tiffany Dubin, works there.

陶布曼和苏富比的联系一直持续到现在：他的儿子罗伯特（Robert）是该公司的一个主管，他的继女蒂法尼·杜宾（Tiffany Dubin）也在这里工作。

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A simple Bulgari gold chain necklace went for$ 25000-five times its estimate-at a sale in April held at Sotheby's New York.

在今年四月举行的纽约苏富比（Sotheby）拍卖会上，一件造型简单的宝格丽金项链最终以2.5万美元成交——比预估价足足高出了4倍。

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Sotheby's said the proceeds from the sales will be used to settle estate taxes and to fund Mr. Taubman's private foundation, filling the coffers of an organization that is already a major donor to the University of Michigan and other institutions.

苏富比说，拍卖收益将被用于支付遗产税，填充陶布曼私人基金会的金库。该基金会已经是密歇根大学（University of Michigan）等机构的主要捐助者。

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The auction, which included five works by Claude Monet, achieved the second-highest result in Sotheby's history for any auction of impressionist and modern art.

本次拍卖包括莫奈（Claude Monet）的五件作品，拍卖总额在苏富比历届印象派和现代艺术拍卖会上排名第二。

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Steven Murphy's short reign as the chief executive of auction house Christie's has been marked by record sales that have kept it ahead of its main rival, Sotheby's.

马文斐（Steven Murphy）担任拍卖行佳士得（Christie’s）首席执行长的时间不长，但在此期间佳士得实现了创纪录的销售额，并一直领先于主要竞争对手苏富比（Sotheby’s）。

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Frieze, like Christie's and Sotheby's, is eager to promote the concept of "crossover" collecting.

Frieze博览会也同佳士得和苏富比一样，热衷推出“跨界”的收藏概念。

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Sotheby's agent Colette Harron cites an 1870 riverfront mansion now on the market in Essex, Conn., for$ 3.48 million.

苏富比（Sotheby）经纪人柯莱特・哈伦（Colette Harron）例举了目前在康涅狄格州艾塞克斯市（Essex）销售的一幢1870年建成的水岸别墅，这幢别墅要价348万美元。

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Sotheby's said yesterday it won the judgment in a Beijing court against Sichuan Su Fu Bi Auction Company, which uses the same simplified Chinese characters in its name as the international auction house.

苏富比昨日表示，它在一家北京法庭对四川苏富比拍卖有限公司（Sichuan Su Fu Bi Auction Company）提起的诉讼中胜诉。被告在名称中使用了与这家国际拍卖行名称相同的简体中文字。

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Daryn Schnipper is chairwoman of the international watch division of Sotheby's.

达琳·斯尼珀（Daryn Schnipper）是苏富比拍卖行（Sotheby’s）国际钟表部的主席。

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Christie's seemed to have lost pace against Sotheby's in the race to get into the Chinese market.

在昔日进军中国市场的竞争中，佳士得（Christie’s）的步伐似乎落后于苏富比（Sotheby’s）。

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A good week for Sotheby's has amply demonstrated China's spending power-a boon for Christie's and Bonham's too.

苏富比这场为期一周的拍卖会充分证明了中国人的购买力，对佳士得（Christie）和宝龙这两家拍卖行来说，这也是好事一桩。

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'This is the crowning glory for collectors,' said Nicholas Chow, Sotheby's expert in Chinese ceramics.

苏富比的中国瓷器专家仇国仕（Nicholas Chow）说，对于藏友来说，拥有一只鸡缸杯是至高无上的荣耀。

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David Norman, of Sotheby's, recalls an American paying$ 12m for two impressionist and modern pictures in London at the sales this June.

据苏富比拍卖行的戴维·诺曼（David Norman）回忆，今年6月，在伦敦曾有一位美国人出资1200万美元，拍得两幅印象派和现代派的画作。

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Winning the Taubman estate comes at a pivotal moment for Sotheby's and its new president and chief executive, Tad Smith.

对苏富比及其新总裁兼首席执行官塔德·史密斯（Tad Smith）来说，获得陶布曼的遗产拍卖权犹如赶上一场及时雨。

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In 2011, Andrew Lloyd Webber sold HK$ 43.3 million-worth of wine at a Sotheby's auction.

2011年，苏富比拍卖公司（Sotheby's）就在香港拍卖了作曲家安德鲁•劳埃德•韦伯（Andrew Lloyd Webber）收藏的价值4330万港元的葡萄酒。

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It closely resembled Monet's "Le Pont Japonais" ( The Japanese Bridge), which was sold to an Asian bidder at Sotheby's in New York on May 7 for$ 15.9 million.

它很像莫奈的《日本的桥》（The Japanese Bridge），那幅画5月7日在纽约苏富比的拍卖会上以1590万美元的价格卖给了一位亚洲买家。

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and Sotheby's as his current Instagram favorites.

以及苏富比拍卖行的Instagram是他目前最喜欢的账户。

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Daniel S. Loeb, the activist hedge fund manager and Sotheby's new board member;

激进的对冲基金经纪人与苏富比新的董事会成员丹尼尔·S·罗伊布（Daniel S.Loeb）；

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