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Amaze-ming: An old vase converted into lamp sold for £550,000




An old blue and white vase 15 inch in height that had been converted into a lamp has sold for well over half a million pounds. The vase from the Ming dynasty. Despite the fact it had a hole drilled in the base, and its two halves had been stuck together.

The hole drilled had half obscured the six character mark of Chinese Emperor Xuande which dates it from the 15th century.




It fetched £550,000 at auction — but experts say without the damage it could have sold for several million pounds.

The blue and white vase was designed as an incense burner and was possibly used for ceremonial purposes during the reign of the emperor between the early part of the 1400's

according to the Sun newspaper The elderly owner was given it as a present some time ago and had no idea of its value when he took it to Duke’s auction house in Dorchester, Dorset, where consultant Anthony du Boulay spotted it.