Bowl bought at yard sale for only 3 dollars sells for $2.2M!

Cool.

When I was an eight-year-old kid in 1969, one of my chores was to burn trash in the back yard. (These were the old days and we lived in the boonies.) I was poking around the burn pit and found an old, chipped bowl with some Indian designs on it. I had just been reading about the Erie Indians who had lived in that area three hundred years before and I thought I had just struck archaeological gold. So I brought it back to the house and breathlessly showed it to Mom.

Mom glanced at it and said "Your dad and I got that as a souvenir in Puerto Rico eight years ago. But it cracked and wouldn't glue right so we threw it out five years ago. Nice find. Want to keep it?"

I was crushed. But I kept it anyway.

awesome fake news story

3/22

lets see how many more we can find

thats what i call investment

its fake dumbass

Right now I work for a vintage shop and I have a dresser that was painted.
I went to strip it and found out all this inlay wood work was under the paint.
Come to find out its a 1870 Louis piece.
If in good condition it would be worth 9,000
Bought the piece for 100

Seriously who paints over wood inlay?? Like people who carpet or tile over hardwood floors.

He was an auctioneer, so he had to know this bowl was worth huge sums of money... and the fucking prick still bought it for two dollars?

Some people have WAY too much money! :money:

Not really. It looks very different from the Song Dy pieces in museums and books. It's the shape of a lotus bowl but all white. Never saw anything like it. Usually they have a blue underglaze and the lotus petals are from the overglaze being removed, not carved out of the porcelain like this one, and so roughly, too, with what appears to be knife marks showing and not smoothed over. This is so cool! IF it's real, and it probably is, then it's a transitional piece, and one of a kind.

Very lucky all around.
Cheers!

Why are you calling this fake news? It's reported by quite a few news outlets.

I believe the value of this bowl lies in the fact that the method for white on white raised design died with its originator and has never been duplicated.

I remember seeing a similar piece in the Shanghai Museum and that is what the spiel on it said.

Noticed that it was purchased by a London dealer. Dealers act as reps for private buyers or museums who don't want to be known as interested, lest the price be bid way up.

Wouldn't be surprised to see the piece be headline news around the next Chinese new year celebration in a congratulations for an ancient treasure finding its way home. They love to do that.

We may never know....

Added:

Thank you, AC - I didn't know there was another like it. Now know where to look.

Last Edited by Crazy Harriet on 03/20/2013 07:18 PM