Programs like Antiques Roadshow have let us all dream of discovering a priceless artifact sitting on the shelves of a thrift store or at the bottom of a cardboard box at a yard sale, but very few of us ever get to realize those dreams. For one antique hunter in Connecticut, browsing other people's old, unwanted items paid off in a huge way when they came across a porcelain bowl with a price tag of $35. Thinking the bowl might be worth much more, the purchase was made, and it turned out to be a historic one.
As AP reports, that same bowl just fetched a winning bid of over $721,000 in a Sotheby's auction, over 20,600 times its purchase price. The bowl turned out to be from the 1400s and was made in China during the Yongle period of the Ming dynasty. It's one of only a handful of bowls known to still exist from that period, and it's in absolutely incredible condition.
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If you have a bowl like this at home, you might be rich originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 20 Mar 2021 at 10:33:58 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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