$30m bronze Buddha breaks record at Sotheby’s

Chinese collector Zheng Huaxing bids 236.44 million HK dollars (30 million US dollars) for a gilt-bronze figure of a seated Shakyamuni Buddha from China's Ming Yongle period and eventually wins it at Sotheby's Hong Kong on Tuesday, October 8, 2013. (Photo: China News Service/Jia Siyu)

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