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This will say “search for opportunities”: one Small porcelain bowl in Chinese, bought instead $ 35 in a Connecticut garage in the northeastern United States is expected to be auctioned by Sotheby’s with estimated value between $ 300,000 and $ 500,000.
The lucky man who “discovered” it, whose name has not been disclosed, asked the auction house to evaluate the bowl that is painted with delicate flower patterns, first sending photos and then taking the item home.
Turned out to be dating 15th century and that it was painted for the court of Emperor Yongl, the third emperor of the Ming dynasty.
Its “very characteristic” shape and flower pattern They place it in an extremely rare class of bowls – only six more have been found in the world, said Angela Macatir, director of Chinese arts at Sotheby’s in New York.
Of these six, five are in museums – two in Taipei, two in London, one in Tehran.
The sixth was last seen on the market in 2007, he said. In these circumstances, the auction, scheduled for March 17, will attract the interest of both private collectors and institutions, he added.
As for how the bowl traveled from China to Connecticut over the centuries, we will probably never know, Macatir says.
Many Chinese works of art reached Western homes in the 19th century and were then passed down from generation to generation without any specific documentation.
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