Collecting Chinese fine art and ceramics(³³²¡) was all the rage(·Ãû¤@®Éªº¨Æª«) in the West in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century. Heavy buying by treasure-hunters, as well as looting(±°¹Ü) of imperial(«Ò°êªº) works by the Germans, Dutch, French and British, brought huge quantities of Chinese fine art into Western collections. But in the past decade the number of European and American buyers has dwindled(º¥º¥´î¤Ö).
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