That’s $85,000,000 in Obama dollars.
£53.1 million?
That’s not a vase, it’s a vahz!
large photo and more info here:-
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36340/a-chinese-fish-vase-found-in-an-attic-swims-to-an-85-million-world-record-in-london/
The World is NUTZ!!
Who bought it? Al Gore?
From the article:
It was eventually sold to a Chinese man, said to be a Beijing-based agent, who sat on a gilded sofa at the front of the room but refused to comment after the sale.
The owners, who had no idea quite how much the vase was worth, were so shocked that they had to leave the room for a breath of fresh air.
Standing 16 inches tall and decorated with fish, the vase is thought to date from the time of Qianlong, the fourth emperor in the Qing dynasty, around 1740.
Experts said it probably once belonged to Chinese royalty but was most likely taken out of the country at the end of the Second Opium War in 1860 when the palaces were ransacked.
It is understood to have been in the vendors’ family since the 1930s.
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i.e. STOLEN FROM THE CHINESE - I hope the ‘cheque’ clears the bank!!!!
Someone should have told the buyer that flower pots at Home Depot go for $5.99
It is lovely. It’s in remarkable shape (even if this is just it’s good side). The color has remained vivid. I’m sure it’s worth it to the gentleman who bought it and it has certainly left a warm, fuzzy glow for their memories of Mum and Dad.
I heard about this in-freakin-credible story on the top-of-the-hour
ABC radio news today.
It’s amazing that some of the inheritors didn’t have a heart attack...
I suspect I would have.
It’s a fake. Me and my little brother used to make copies of those when we were kids. You could get the instructions by ordering them from Mad Magazine for $1.95.
I say they launched at us.
As with most of the stuff we see today, I wonder if it has “Made in China” impressed on the bottom.
It would be a hoot if it said “Hecho en Mexico”.