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Born in 1952, Colin Sheaf was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and Worcester College, Oxford, where he won a Double Exhibition to read Modern History. Graduating in 1974 with an established fascination for the art world, and an academic knowledge of European ceramics, he joined London auctioneers Christie’s and quickly became a specialist in the Chinese art department. During the next 25 years he worked at different times in the Chinese art departments in New York, Amsterdam, London and most importantly, Hong Kong, spotting the opportunity to build a start-up auction business there into the world leader. Having lectured, broadcast and written extensively about Asian art for nearly 30 years, he is widely known to many of those collectors and dealers who have emerged as the market for Asian art has exploded since the late 1980’s. Appointed in 2005 as Chairman of Bonhams Asia, Colin Sheaf brings to the Bonhams Hong Kong team a combination of professional skills unequalled in the global art world: twenty years experience as a business-building auctioneer in Asia, and thirty years as an academic specialist in Chinese art working as an auctioneer. | 