Family owners discovered treasure when moving house

The porcelain bowl that was forgotten on the shelf turned out to be a 300-year-old antiquity, brought to the British owner $ 267,000.

While moving to prepare to move, the British woman brought a blue ceramic bowl on the family's furniture to an auction house in Bath, England. I hope you can earn some money because it is a very cute item. She was extremely surprised and happy when the experts affirmed that the porcelain bowl is an extremely rare ancient treasure, dating from the Chinese Emperor Yongzheng (1722-1735).

The bowl of the Ung Chinh era.(Photo: Aldridges of Bath).

The porcelain bowl is priced at around $ 24-36 thousand (VND 500-800 million) but was eventually sold for more than $ 267,000 (over VND 6 billion) to a Chinese buyer.

"In the last 15 years, I've only encountered four cases like this special ceramic bowl," said Ivan Street, an antique expert at Aldridges of Bath . Big auction house in Hong Kong for $ 133 thousand (more than 3 billion) So both me and the owner of the ancient porcelain bowl were surprised when a Chinese buyer paid twice the price. "

The bowl of the Ung Chinh era.(Photo: Aldridges of Bath).

Explaining the rarity of the bowl, Mr. Street said, the Politburo Emperor for a short time (13 years), the quality items at that time were very rare. Emperor Ung Chinh is the 4th son of Kangxi emperor. He was the 5th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in Chinese history. The time to keep the throne, Ung Chinh reorganized the imperial structure, promoted the elimination of embezzlement and launched a series of reforms praised by the people.