Featured Chinese Clair-de-Lune Glazed Porcelain Bottle Vase

no bollocks about it, here nor or there @Sdcookie2

what do you think know dude ?

 

$2.99. Reluctantly !

 

tut tut

 

i don't believe it mate, think youd have been all over that sky blue glaze

 

oh....I don't know about that ........

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They may as well have started it at 99 cents..

 

be interesting to see what people here would have bid for it

 

i reckon id a gone £75

 

I'd have gone around $ 250,000.....but that's in Canadian dollars........so about ...
$ 11,271. us !! ..........

 

I posted this on my facebook page earlier in the week with a comment about how in a couple of months, this color is going to appear on numerous Chinese porcelain pieces!

 

That colour and shape soothe the eye. A very beautiful and extremely rare piece.

We have often talked about Chinese collectors buying back Chinese items. They aren't interested in gaudy export porcelain made for Western taste, this is just the kind of thing Chinese collectors with deep pockets go for, hence the end result.

 

"What makes the vase so special is the Yongzheng mark on its base. The six-character mark indicates that the porcelain was created in the imperial kiln during the Yongzheng Emperor's rule in the 18th century. The Chinese emperor only reigned for 13 years, which means a small number of pieces were made during this period.

The vase is also rarer than others created during this period because the mark is in bronze script. According to Freeman's | Hindman, only three such examples of this are known to exist, including one in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art."

Well, there's your answer. Mark and period, made in the imperial kiln, rare glaze, short-lived dynasty, and rare mark. I'm thinking it has likely gone home to China.

 

So am I.

 

Me too!

 

Me four. It's in the Chinese taste, made for the Chinese market, and both old and rare. Some Chinese gazillionaire made off with it.

One more to watch out for! If this lot didn't know, odds are no estate sale runners will either.

 

Yes! I need to find one of those.

Someone in my city just won a $1.3 billion lottery. Wasn't me though, so back to work I go.

 

that's a rude lottery........ here we have one that's at 60 million....but it's capped at 70 I believe...& then they add extra 1 million dollar prizes...