02 February 2011

Check your attic for a vase that looks like this

A retired chocolate factory worker who took an old vase to a provincial auction house in a cardboard box is in line for a million-pound bonanza after being told it was a Ming moonflask. Experts at Duke's in Dorchester, Dorset, were stunned when the 79-year-old man, who used to work for Cadbury, showed them the 29cm-tall vase, thought to date from between 1403 and 1424...

"It is the largest recorded example from a rarefied group of early Ming moonflasks dating from the Yongle period."..

Last year, Duke's sold a Chinese vase from the Qianlong period for £765,000. It had been used as an umbrella stand by its owners.

2 comments:

  1. MektoubFebruary 3, 2011 at 5:12 AM

    The same happened to a French who had an old Chinese vase transformed as a lamp, that he thought had no value. The vase was sold for 5.547000 € you can read more about It here:

    http://michel-ute.guidarts.com/www/news.php?sid=86&lg=fr

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  2. MinnesotastanFebruary 3, 2011 at 8:44 AM

    Thank you, Mektoub. I had not seen that story.

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