Cologne – Van Ham
Just under a year ago, the Cologne auction firm Van Ham sold Oriental art from the collection of Roland Sonderhoff.
He had studied law in Germany before working in the legal department of a bank. In 1929 he joined a Japanese bank and moved to Tokyo and later worked with a partner dealing with patents and trademarks. Throughout his long sojourn in the Far East, Sonderhoff collected Asian works of art, many of which he purchased during his frequent trips to China.