1,000-year-old Chinese bowl sells for over $2.22M
This undated photo provided by Sotheby's Auction House in New York shows a 1,000-year-old Chinese "Ding" bowl from the Northern Song Dynasty. / AP Photo/Sotheby's Auction House
NEW YORK A rare Chinese bowl bought at a tag sale for $3 has sold at a New York auction for more than $2.22 million.
The 1,000-year-old bowl was part of the opening session of Sotheby's fine Chinese ceramics and works of art auction Tuesday.
Sotheby's says it was sold to a London dealer for $2.225 million, far above the presale estimate of $200,000 to $300,000.
The person who put the bowl up for auction bought it at a tag sale in 2007 and had it displayed in the living room for several years before becoming curious about its origins and having it examined.
The bowl is 5 inches in diameter, white in color and from the Northern Song Dynasty.
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- A bowl is a bowl is a bowl
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- I have six of these in my basement Does any one want one?
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- Just kidding the idiot who bought this.
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- I probably would have kept it awhile, decided it was junk and threw it out.
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- Well done Obi-wan.
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- Amazing it lasted all these years without being broken. That looks like a truly fine piece of work.
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- Obviously the guy wasn't married! No one to throw it at him!
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- That's one expensive piece of China!
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- No it is actually worth more than the rest of China. You see China thrives on stealing from the rest of U.S. 90% of China's GNP is theft. The Chinese government is the crotch of rot in this world and they go out of their way to promote it. The US should shut the door on those damned tuna heads. China NEEDS US. The reason we do not shut the door on them is corruption. People like the Clinton's make $millions from them. Hillary in 2016? Please give be ball-rott, not Hillary.
