| Chinese vase "discovered" in Shropshire is expected to fetch £500,000 at auction in London |
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LONDON.- When valuer Jeremy Rye was invited to a house in Shropshire to look at an English Dessert Service, little did he know that he would spot a Chinese Vase and cover worth £500,000! The vase, which measures almost 50cm high, had spent most of the last 30 years unrecognised on the floor of a dining room by a window. The extraordinary large and elegant Doucai ‘Lotus and Bats’ baluster-shaped jar and cover, dating from the Qianlong Period (1736-95) is one of the most expensive lots in Sotheby’s auction of Fine Chinese Ceramic s and Works of Art on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at New Bond Street, London. Its large body is magnificently decorated with an ornate composition of bats in mid-flight and lotus scrolls in rich doucai enamels. As Fine Art Agent Jeremy, who is based near Welshpool, said: “I had been called to appraise a an English Dessert Service, but my eye was immediately drawn to the 18-inch vase read full article
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