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London (CNN) -- It is a year since an 18th-century Chinese vase was sold in London for $68 million , smashing world records.

Now dealers and auction houses in London are feverishly anticipating a slew of sales as part of Asian Art in London , a week-long event that has been attracting newly-wealthy Chinese buyers and collectors to the capital for over a decade.

Max Rutherston, Chairman of Asian Art in London, says the week of Asian art sales and exhibitions in London has been running for 13 years, and has seen a "Chinese art boom," with collectors from mainland China and Hong Kong flocking to London to check out the array of antique wares laid out in the salesrooms and galleries.