PARIS.- The sale of Asian Art here totalled €13.2m ($15.9m), well ahead of pre-sale total estimate of €3.9-5.5m and a 106% increase on the corresponding sale in June 2009. The sale was 93.8% sold by value and 71% of lots cleared their high estimate. The auction’s star lot was a magnificent gilt-bronze figure of Amitayus that brought €1,016,750 ($1,216,694) against an estimate of €200,000-300,000. This Qing Dynasty sculpture, portraying the Buddha of Eternal Life thought to preside over the Western Paradise, was published in Ulrich von Shroeder’s reference work on Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, and dates from the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1662-1722). Ritual objects were among the sale’s most keenly contested lots. A gilt-bronze bell and stand from a European collection, dating from the 13th year of the reign of Qianlong (1748), posted the day’s second-highest price of €744,750 ($891,205) (est. €60,000-80,000). A superb