Solid selling was evident throughout the Cheffins sale but the main eye-catcher was a private collection of a dozen Chinese fans. From a deceased estate, they were priced to sell, but the six fan leafs catalogued as by a follower of Fu Shan (1607-84) went considerably above private hopes. Estimated collectively at £1700-3000, they sold at a total of nearly £57,000.
Each in ink on gilded paper laid down on paper, the top-seller was a 19in (49cm) wide leaf with a poem and three seals in red and black ink provenanced to London dealer Sydney Moss. It sold to a US-based Chinese bidder at £14,000 against an estimate of £300-500.