Christie's returned to live Asian art auctions in London with a Fine Asian Art sale on 6 November that totalled £4,052,864 across 179 lots, the first such sale in the capital in six years.

The sale, held during Asian Art in London, gathered works spanning some 2,500 years, from Chinese ceramics, works of art and paintings to Himalayan, Indian and Southeast Asian Buddhist art and Japanese art. Estimates ran from £1,000 to £350,000, and the pre-sale viewing ran from 31 October to 5 November. The lots drew on distinguished private collections, including the Muwen Tang Collection and the estate of Sir John Keswick.

Among the highlights were a rare Yongzheng blue-and-white Dragon dish estimated at £150,000-250,000, an impressive huanghuali trestle-leg table from the 17th or 18th century estimated at £250,000-350,000, and a 2015 scroll painting by Liu Dan. A pair of large bronze basins from early 5th-century BC China carried an estimate of £150,000-200,000, while an 11th-century marble figure of a surasundari, a celestial beauty from western India, was estimated at £60,000-80,000.

The sale follows the success of The Flacks Family Collection II: Curtain Call in May, a 49-lot single-owner offering from the veteran Chinese art dealers Marcus and Deborah Flacks that raised more than £4 million. Christie's described the November sale as marking a regular return to Asian art in London, a fixture the house had not staged live in the city for six years.

The result, confirmed on Christie's own results page, puts the revived format on a firm footing as Asian Art in London runs to 10 November.