Valuable yard sale find

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Talk about your yard sale finds. A small porcelain bowl bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale turned out to be a rare, 15th-century Chinese artifact worth between $300,000 and $500,000 that is about to go up for auction at Sotheby’s.

The white bowl adorned with cobalt blue paintings of flowers and other designs is about 6in inches (16cm) in diameter. An antiques enthusiast came across the piece and thought it could be something special when browsing a yard sale in the New Haven area last year, according to Sotheby’s.

The piece, one of only seven such bowls known to exist in the world, will be up for auction in New York on 17 March as part of Sotheby’s Auction of Important Chinese Art.

Connecticut yard sale bowl turns out to be 15th-century Chinese artifact | Connecticut | The Guardian

Edited March 3 by ted hughes