An extraordinarily rare Chinese vase that was found in an attic in France is going under the hammer next month at Sotheby’s Paris, where it is expected to fetch between $600,000–850,000.

A royal blue 18th-century Chinese vase decorated with gold and silver, which sat in a U.K. kitchen for several years, just sold at auction for about $1.8 million after historians realized it had ...

The traditional blue-white vase was expected to reach a high of $2,000 USD but ended up seeing a hammer price of $7.6 million USD — $9 million after fees.