In another story of an amazing piece of undervaluing a Chinese vase thought to have been worth under a £100 has sold for close to £100,000 at an auction at Sheppards Irish Auction House in Durrow. County Laois, Ireland.
The 12-inch porcelain vase was mistaken for a replica Imperial vase by the auctioneers. The auction began with an opening bid of $70, before two dealers then started bidding in multipules of a thousand. It was all over in a few minutes and a London dealer, Richard Peters, made the winning bid. Mr. Peters said that the market is "filled with fakes and forgeries" but this vase was "made for the personal collection of the Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century" and had “probably been looted from the Imperial Palace in Peking by French or British or American soldiers sometime during the 19th century".
Everday people are finding amazing things proving the point that those who say there are nothing left to discover could not be more wrong.
