600-year-old porcelain Cup sold for $ 30 million
At Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong was sold for the sum almost in $ 30 million blue and white bowl of Chinese porcelain of the Ming dynasty, made about 600 years ago.
This amount is the second largest in history, paid for porcelain from that era. The auction took place on April 5 and lasted 12 minutes. The buyer chose to remain anonymous, we only know that it is most likely from Taiwan, reports the South China Morning Post.
The bowl depicts fish swimming in the pond. This story is a favorite motif of the Emperor, Syanide, who ruled in China in the years 1425-1435. The bowl previously was owned by a collector in Japan and never put up for auction.
A 600-year-old Chinese porcelain bowl sells in Hong Kong for HK$229 million https://t.co/LHmgXd6kUJ pic.twitter.com/4tj71Hpehs
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The record for the price of porcelain during the Ming dynasty continues to hold the “chicken bowl”, which the Chinese collector Li Iceni purchased in 2014 for $ 36 million.