London : Hidden away amid shoe boxes and dresses, a precious 18th century
Chinese vase sat in a closet virtually forgotten for three decades before selling for more than GDP2.82mil on Wednesday, 7 November 2007, a British action house said.
This vase’s Swiss owner put her piece up for action after spotting a similar work at a museum here, Sotheby’s said: Her blue-and-white “dragon” vase had been sitting at the bottom of her wardrobe since the 1970’s when her expert told her the piece was a copy.
“They did her a huge favor” said Alastair Gibson, the head of Sotheby’s Chinese department here. “It would have been worth about GDP10,000 then and now it’s just made, as you know GDP2.5million plus.”
The international market for Chinese antiquities is booming, fuelled in part by an increasing appetite on behalf of wealthy Chinese collectors for relics of their country’s imperial past.
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