Dish bought at Adams for 301k sells at Sothebys for €1m+

MrMatisse

You would have to feel for the vendor here.

Dish sold at Adams for 310K

http://www.adams.ie/AYEAROFRECORDS.asp

'On auction day we had a large number of telephone bidders from China, America and Europe and it sold to a London based dealer for €310,000 against a Chinese bidder in the room. This was now the highest auction price ever paid in Ireland for a piece of porcelain of any origin.'

Sells a few months later at Sothebys for over a million.

http://www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2012/ceramics-vo-hk0393#/r=/en/ecat.fhtml.HK0393.html+r.m=/en/ecat.lot.HK0393.html/3156/


When it comes to specialist items. Seems Dublin is not the place to sell.......

coylemj

Over 1.8m euro according my currency converter, a tidy little 490% profit for the eagle-eyed dealer who snapped it up.

Judgement Day

Not the first time this sort of thing has happened but with the explosion in online bidding at auctions, it makes little difference where the physical sale takes place. Most of this Chinese stuff that has gone for mad money recently is the sort of tat that most of us would pass by at a car boot sale.

MrMatisse

Know nothing about Chinese ceramics etc but there is a Tang dynasty earthenware figure in the 21st April Whytes auction, one of the lots towards the end, estimate of 80-100 euro...........

you just wonder........

Judgement Day

With my luck, I'd probably drop it on the way home.

MrMatisse

probably still find a buyer these days!!