The Tianqiuping porcelain vase, believed to be an 18th-century artifact, sold at an Osenat auction on Saturday.
measures 21 x 16 inches with a spherical body and long cylindrical neck. It’s also decorated with swirling clouds and nine ferocious dragons to boot. It was brought to auction by the daughter of the former owner, Osenat president Jean-Pierre Osenat told. Reportedly, she lives abroad and didn’t see the vase before arranging for it to be taken from her mother’s home in Brittany, northwestern France.collector in the last century,” Osenat claims.
“From the moment the catalogue was published we saw there was enormous interest with more and more Chinese people coming to see the vase,” says Cédric Laborde, an Osenat director. Eventually, the auction house limited the number of bidders down to 30, all of which had to pay a deposit to bid on the vase.
By Saturday, the bidding frenzy kicked off with 15 telephone bidders and 15 collectors in house driving up the price. Osenat claims 10 people were still bidding after the price passed the €5 million mark. The vase eventually was sold to an unidentified Chinese buyer for the grand total of €9.121 million , including fees.
“Our expert still thinks it’s not old,” states Laborde. In fact, Osenat’s expert claims if the vase had been 200 years older it would have been extremely rare—presumably without a doubt. Despite this, it’s clear that the mainly Chinese bidders for the piece saw value in the lot. “I have faith in the hammer, which is to say that I think the law of supply and demand determines the market price,”
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