Vase Kept In Kitchen Turned Out To Be 250-Year-Old Relic, Auctioned For 1.5 Million Pounds
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The blue gilded vase was made for the court of the Qianlong Emperor - the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty in China.
A vase that was kept in a British kitchen has been sold for a staggering 1.5 million pound. The extremely rare 18th-century Chinese vase was bought by an English surgeon in the 1980s for a few hundred pounds, The Guardian reported.
Measuring two feet in height, the 250-year-old gilded artifact is decorated with cranes and bats, The Guardian report said. It was created for the court of the Qianlong Emperor in the 1700s, it added.
English auction house Dreweatts handled the sale of the vase. It had initially valued the artifact at 150,000 pounds.
But when it went under the hammer, a bidding war began and the vase finally went for 1,449,000 pounds, including a buyers' premium - setting a record at Dreweatts.
