The bowl sparked a sales battle before being snapped up by London dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi on Tuesday.

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This time, ''Nature Morte au Melon Vert'' was sold by Giuseppe Eskenazi, one of the world's foremost experts on Chinese Art and a prominent London gallery owner.

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One of the foremost Asian antiquities dealers, Giuseppe Eskenazi, who helped organise the show and who owns a gallery off London's Bond Street, is widely respected as knowing the field.

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