Once Upon A Time

There was a brother and sister that had lost their parents.

Sadly,

 they went to their Mother and Fathers home in England

that was not far from Heathrow airport.

The brother and sister started to clean up the house 

to get it ready to put it on the market.

While going about the business of cleaning,

there was the very dusty attic to deal with.

Amongst the things that they found

  was a long forgotten vase 

that was on it's side and covered with dust.

They dusted it off ,and along with many other trinkets.

they brought this vase and everything else 

to an auction house.

And if you can imagine....

"The delicate, decorative 16-inch vase 

started at a not-inconsequential $800,000, 

but after a half-hour of unexpectedly spirited bidding, 

the gavel fell at $69.5 million." 

It was the highest price ever paid at auction for a Chinese antiquity!!!

'The vase dated from the period of the emperor Qianlong, who reigned from 1735 to 1796, at the height of the Qing dynasty. He vastly expanded China’s western territories and left a legacy as a great patron of Chinese arts, including ceramics. Experts who have examined the vase, which bore an imperial seal, have said it was likely to have been made for one of the imperial palaces.'

read the article in the new you times

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