Have you heard the one about the " what's a Chinese Urn "

of cause you have ... The answer is no longer £10 a week.

Chinese urns can bring up to according to ( auction reports ) this Qianlong period vase brought £43,000,000 but if the vase was droped I know it would not have bounced ....... Not sure about the cheque.



http://www.qlocal.co.uk/southport/an...e-50444947.htm

Only to day the Daily Express (my daily paper) reports that,

A PENSIONER was shocked to be told a dusty old vase she inherited was a 250-year-old Chinese “moonflask” worth half a million pounds.

The anonymous woman, 88, said her father Edward Whittington-Ince, bought the ornament while Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies from 1925 to 1927.

She said: “It’s a frightening amount. I love looking at it, but I am glad I don’t have it in the house anymore.”

The reputable Salisbury auctioneers Woolley and Wallis will sell it on November 16 2011

Over the last year many reports of Chinese ceramics bringing world record prices.

The Sun reported 20th May 2011 a Jade tea pot brought £2,000,000 in auction again in Salisbury.

Originally Posted by antiqueman

Have you heard the one about the " what's a Chinese Urn "

of cause you have ... The answer is no longer £10 a week.

Chinese urns can bring up to according to ( auction reports ) this Qianlong period vase brought £43,000,000 but if the vase was dropped I know it would not have bounced ....... Not sure about the cheque.

http://www.qlocal.co.uk/southport/an...e-50444947.htm

Only today the Daily Express (my daily paper) reports that,






The reputable Salisbury auctioneers Woolley and Wallis will sell it on November 16 2011

Over the last year many reports of Chinese ceramics bringing world record prices.

The Sun reported 20th May 2011 a Jade tea pot brought £2,000,000 in auction again in Salisbury.

My favourite news paper the Daily Express reports yet another story

yet another, and another, and another...................




A VASE which has spent 30 years unrecognised on a dining room floor has just been valued...at a staggering £500,000.




The Chinese vase, which is about 18in tall, dates from the Qianlong period (1736 to 1795) and has been described as “magnificently decorated with an ornate composition.”

It is one of the most expensive lots for sale at auction last night at Sotheby’s auction of fine Chinese ceramics and works of art at New Bond Street in London.

Valuer Jeremy Rye, who was visiting a house in Shropshire, said: “The owners had no idea of its value and I suspect that they would have parted with it for a few hundred pounds!”

The antiquesman comment.

few hundred pounds!”

'O' YES

From what I see everyone thinks anything china or pottery and made in or looks like it is Chinese is worth a fortune.
Every day someone comes into the shop with a vase wrapped up with loads of cloths...

and you know what is going to come out of the bag and it not a rabbit.......

YOU GUESSED IT............ a Chinese pot.



It will be a reproduction bought in a garden centre or a department store in the 1980's and they have just inherited it from a family member. or it was there Grandmothers.

i see them all the time.

approx what date did the chinese stop using red clay and start using porcelain john?

and another

15 November 2011

THE ANTIQUE WORLD IS NOT SHOCKED ANY MORE BY "ANOTHER" CHINESES VASE SELLING FOR MORE THAN A WINNING TICKET ON THE LOTTO.

ACCORDING TO THE ANTIQUE TRADE GAZET

Topping the auction bill this week was this 19½in (50cm) high Qianlong seal mark famille rose Imperial vase decorated with chrysanthemum blossoms on a pale turquoise ground, which sold for £8m (plus premium) at Bonhams on November 10.

In reality terms that is just under £10,000,000.

That is if anything is worth £10,000,000 can be reality.




The vase was owned by family and is thought to have been acquired in Hong Kong in 1914. It has passed by descent from one family to another whose executors consigned it to Bonhams, one of the worlds leading auction houses.

The vase, which had an estimate on request of £5m-8m, was contested by three phone bidders.

Bidding opened at £2m and finished on a high at £8m.

Bonhams' Beijing representative, who successfully secured the piece.

This now means a Chinese person can now legally send nearly £10m out of China into the British economy.

In my opinion when the Chinese border laws are slackened we will see an amazing drop in the prices and values of Chinese works of Art.

AN OTHER


Amazing ................

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.

AND ANOTHER

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...ells-for-1-6m-

from a report in the Daily Express

A SMALL bowl bought for just £65 has stunned the art world by selling for more than £1.6million.





The 10in bowl blue and white bowl was identified as rare Ming dynasty porcelain from the 15th century.

It was originally purchased by collectors Otto and Gertrude Harriman after the Second World War for £65 ( equivalent of £1,600 then)

The family of the late couple decided to sell it at auction and hoped it would raise £20,000.

But Chinese bidders went mad over the blue and white piece and it eventually sold for 84 times the estimate, £1.6 million

Now if the rim had not been damaged it would have sold for even more, May be £2 million

The bowl would have been used in dice games and dates from the time of Emperor Xuande, who ruled between 1425 and 1435.
The bowl is decorated with dragons.

Peter Bainbridge the owner of the auction house said. It is exceptionally rare and would have been more valuable had there not been some damage

It was sold by Bainbridge’s auction house in Ruislip, north-west London. If you remember the same saleroom that sold a Chinese
vase in 2010 for £59million.

Peter Bainbridge, who runs the saleroom, said: “This bowl was used for games, but you wouldn’t have shaken it, you would have just rolled the dice with it.

“It came from a collection that was passed down from the Harrimans and has been on display at Nottingham museum.

[QUOTE=antiqueman;2031196]Have you heard the one about the " what's a Chinese Urn "

of cause you have ... The answer is no longer £10 a week.

Chinese urns can bring up to according to ( auction reports ) this Qianlong period vase brought £43,000,000 but if the vase was droped I know it would not have bounced ....... Not sure about the cheque.



http://www.qlocal.co.uk/southport/an...e-50444947.htm

BACK TO THE CHEQUE

Mother and son who sold rare vase for £43m STILL haven't received a penny because of row between winning bidder and auctioneer


At the auction in November, 2010, rival Chinese bidders sent the final sale figure spiralling.

Ivan Macquisten, editor of the Antiques Trade Gazette, told the Sunday Telegraph: 'It is my understanding that they vase has not yet been paid for.

'The buyer could be considered to have defaulted on the sale, considering how much time has passed since the auction, but the seller seems to want the price that was originally bid for the vase.'


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