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The Qianlong porcelain vase brought to Bainbridge's auction house a premium of £8.6 million. £53.1 million was the price fetched by this Chinese porcelain vase.
See Lark E. Mason appraise a Chinese famille noire porcelain vase, ca. 1890, in Maryland Zoo, Hour 3. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines.
In Springs Preserve, Hour 1, Lark E. Mason Jr. appraises a Chinese porcelain rouleau vase fragment, ca. 1710. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines.
Ceramics were first produced in China in the early 7th century, and Chinese porcelain is regarded as the most advanced in the world by far.
The vase, which was described as "quite ordinary" by the Osenat auction house in France, was expected to sell for about €2,000 (around $1,952), according to The Guardian.
This time I tried something different with plastic flowers in resin. The only thing that could have been better is the piece of wood. The resin soaked into the wood, which gave this dark spots.
The "exceedingly rare" Chinese Clair-de-Lune Glazed Porcelain Bottle Vase was previously owned by members of the Fleischmann family.
A prized Chinese vase dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as merely a 'clever reproduction' went on to sell for £53million after sitting in a loft for four decades.
From various archive sources and rigorous examination of the inscriptions, Lane identified the vase in Dublin as the first credibly documented piece of Chinese porcelain in Europe.
A Chinese vase expected to fetch €1,500-€2,000 (around $1,470-$1,960) at auction has sold for more than €9 million ($8.8 million) after a bidding war between collectors.
A giant Chinese vase bought for a few hundred pounds is set to sell for £150,000 after it emerged that it belonged to an 18th century Emperor. The vendor's late father, a surgeon, acquired the ...