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    Qianlong Dynasty

     

    1. The elaborately decorated Qing-dynasty porcelain vase had been found in a routine house clearance and was included in a sale of antiques on Nov. 11, 2010, by Bainbridges of west London. Its price was more than 50     times the presale estimate and the auction house ceased to comment after several months passed without payment.

     

    Ming Dynasty Vase

    2.A 500-year-old Chinese vase has sold in Hong Kong for over $22 million.

    An anonymous telephone bidder paid HK$168.7 million ($22.6 million) for the 15th century imperial vase at the sale by Sotheby’s auction house, more than double the lower pre-sale estimate of HK$80 million ($10.7 million).

     

     

     

     

    Qing Dynasty Vase

     

    3.  In what could rank as the grandest auction house underestimate of all time, a Chinese vase that was expected to sell at a Sotheby’s on Tuesday for as little as $800 skyrocketed to an astronomical $18,002,500. Dated in the catalogue as “probably Republican Period,” or from the early 20th century, the beautiful famille-rose porcelain vase prompted an explosion of bidding from experts who were convinced that the auction house had erred in their appraisal, and that the piece in fact hailed from the imperial-era Qianlong dynasty of the 18th century.

     

     

     

    Christie Ming Vase

     

    4. On May 30, 2006 at a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong casino resort developer Steve Wynn from Las Vegas purchased a 600 year old Ming vase only to donate it to a public museum in Macau.
    The vase sold for $614,000.00 back in 1984, but this time it went for much, much more, a record breaking $10,122,558.00 USD, making it the world’s most expensive vase at the time.

     

     

     

     

     

    Imperial Kangxi Enmamel

     

    5. In Hong Kong today Sothebys’s conducted an auction of rare Chinese objects ranging from Imperial Porcelain to paintings all of which flew dispelling any ideas that the market hasn’t recovered from last year’s slowdown. Leading the way was the sale of an extremely rare and fine quality Kangxi (1662-1722) Ruby-Ground Double-Lotus “falangcai” bowl which found a buyer with the prominent Chinese dealer William Chak.

     

     

    Dragon Lotus

     

    6. The blue and white “Dragon and Lotus” porcelain vase, which dates to the 1700s, was estimated to sell for $180,000 to $300,000,  descendants of China’s last royal family are $3 million richer after a rare vase was sold at a Toronto auction — for 10 times its maximum estimate.

     

     

     

     

     

    Russian Vases

    7. Randy Buttram never gave much thought to the two 4½-foot tall ornate vases that graced the elegant main entrance of his grandparents’ Oklahoma City mansion and later were displayed around a fireplace facade at his parents’ home.

    The vases, which had been packed away for around a decade, turned out to be rare items from Russia dating back nearly two centuries — to the reign of Nicholas I. They also carried immense value, fetching $2.7 million Thursday in a private sale about a week before they were to be auctioned.

     

    Chinese Vase

     

     

    8. A rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a New York home has sold for $1.3 million at auction. The blue and white moon flask was auctioned Wednesday at Sotheby’s sale of Chinese works of art. Its presale estimate was $600,000 to $900,000.

    The piece had been in the same family collection for decades. The auction house said the family decided to sell it after seeing a similar piece in a Sotheby’s advertisement.

    The owner did not wish to be identified.

     

     

     

    Jade Vase

    9.A very pale celadon jade Chinese vase from the Quianlong period has sold for $816,000 at a Maynards auction in Vancouver.

    The 42-centimetre-high vase, crafted between 1730 and 1795, was estimated to have a value of $40,000 to $60,000 but the winning bidder from Hong Kong obviously prized it far more highly.

    The items sold at the two-day auction that ended Wednesday were originally estimated to be worth $1 million to $1.5 million, but the final sales tally was $2.9 million.

     

     

     

    China Antique Vase

     

    10 .Antiques from China have been rising in value over the past few years. So it was a very pleasant ­surprise when valuer Jeremy Rye – visiting a house in Shropshire to look at an English dessert service – spotted a valuable imperial-­quality ­Chinese vase (below).

    The vase, which is about 50cm tall, had spent most of the past 30 years unrecognised on the floor of a ­dining room by a window. This ­example is a large doucai “lotus and bats” ­baluster-shaped jar with a cover. It dates from the Qianlong period (1736 to 1795). It has been described as “magnificently decorated with an ornate composition of bats in mid-flight and lotus scrolls in rich doucai enamels”.

     

     

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