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Ming vase smashes record at mixed Sotheby's sale
reuters.com ^
| Oct 5, 2011
| James Pomfret
Posted on 10/06/2011 7:48:24 PM PDT by Beowulf9
A prominent old world collection of imperial ceramics fetched $72 million at a Sotheby's Hong Kong sale on Wednesday, with an early Ming cobalt blue Meiping vase going for a record $21.6 million despite recent financial market turmoil.
The Meiyintang collection, a unique, respected assemblage of Chinese porcelain collected over nearly half a century by Swiss tycoons, the Zuellig brothers, was offered onto the market for the first time in April in a highly anticipated Hong Kong sale.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chinese; ming; porcelain
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posted on
10/06/2011 7:48:27 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
At first I thought the vase literally smashed....that would be news I suppose.
To: Beowulf9
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posted on
10/06/2011 7:50:00 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
Ming vase smashes record The buyer respectfully requests that you not use "Ming vase" and "smash" in the same sentence. Thx.
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posted on
10/06/2011 7:50:23 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
To: Beowulf9
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posted on
10/06/2011 7:52:27 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
To: Nervous Tick
The buyer respectfully requests that you not use "Ming vase" and "smash" in the same sentence. Thx.wuddaya, kidding? It's insured!
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posted on
10/06/2011 7:53:06 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
To: Beowulf9
Please DO NOT say “Ming Vase” and “smashed” in the same sentence or paragraph.
My heart is beating very rapidly.
To: fieldmarshaldj
That reminds me of this, which, while not directly related, is a classic and is due for a bump.
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posted on
10/06/2011 7:56:45 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
“That was a priceless Min Vase!”
Inspector Clouseau: “Nit anymear.”
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posted on
10/06/2011 8:21:02 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: Beowulf9
i guess you dont put flowers in it
To: beebuster2000
“i guess you dont put flowers in it”
unless they’re poppies.
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posted on
10/06/2011 8:26:48 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
This reminds me of an old cartoon.
A man is walking through a museum and sees a vase with a placard “MING”.
He reaches over and flips it with his finger and it rings.....”TANG”.
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posted on
10/06/2011 9:44:18 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Click my name. See my home page, if you dare! NEW PHOTOS & PAINTINGS)
To: napscoordinator
To: Beowulf9
Perhaps I have Philistine blood in me, but there's no way I'd look at any ceramic vase and say "Holy Smoke! I'd pay 26 million dollars for that thing! I just HAVE to make it mine!", and I don't care if I had 100 billion dollars worth of Krugerrands sitting in a vault somewhere to the point I was so rich I could wipe my bottom with squares of toilet paper cut from the Bayeux Tapestry.
Anything I'd pay that kind of money for better look very much like a brand new fresh jet airliner decked out like it belonged to the Sultan of Brunei. A vase? Forget it. I don't care how rich I was.
To: Beowulf9
Is it just me, or is that vase crooked?
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posted on
10/07/2011 7:38:47 AM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God is, and (2) God is good?)
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