11-12-2010, 04:21 PM
HOLY SHITE!
Daily Mail
A world record has been smashed in a provincial British auction house after a household vase fetched £51million. 68 million dollars!
The 18th-century Chinese antique was found during a routine clear-out of a dusty attic in a three-bed semi-detached house on the outskirts of London.
The owners, a brother and sister who were clearing out their late parents’ modest home in suburban Pinner, West London, had to be taken out of the auction room in shock
as frenzied bidding lasted half an hour.
The vase is from the Qianlong period, when the production of intricately designed china was at its peak, and the Emperor, who ruled from 1736 to 1795, was an avid connoisseur of art.
The bottom of the 16-inch high vase, thought to have been made in the 1740s, is marked with the Imperial seal.
The elaborately decorated and enameled body, exquisitely painted in pastel yellow and blue, contains an inner vase that can be viewed through the perforations.
Daily Mail
A world record has been smashed in a provincial British auction house after a household vase fetched £51million. 68 million dollars!
The 18th-century Chinese antique was found during a routine clear-out of a dusty attic in a three-bed semi-detached house on the outskirts of London.
The owners, a brother and sister who were clearing out their late parents’ modest home in suburban Pinner, West London, had to be taken out of the auction room in shock
as frenzied bidding lasted half an hour.The vase is from the Qianlong period, when the production of intricately designed china was at its peak, and the Emperor, who ruled from 1736 to 1795, was an avid connoisseur of art.
The bottom of the 16-inch high vase, thought to have been made in the 1740s, is marked with the Imperial seal.
The elaborately decorated and enameled body, exquisitely painted in pastel yellow and blue, contains an inner vase that can be viewed through the perforations.