拍賣商 Charles Hanson估計瓷瓶可賣100萬英鎊。

(6月22日訊）據英國《鏡報》報道，英國一對夫婦不識貨，過去30年將一個價值100萬英鎊的清朝乾隆年間瓷瓶用來頂門。

該對夫婦表示，那個瓷瓶是一位從事古董買賣的已故親人1980年傳給他們的，平時用來頂住門，孩子們也會在瓷瓶周圍打球。夫婦曾考慮將瓷瓶放在二手市場賣，最後還是找拍賣商來估估價。

某天，拍賣商Adrian Rathbone應約造訪該夫婦的住所，見到了這個瓶子。Adrian Rathbone說：「當這對夫婦決定賣瓷瓶時，並不知道它的價值，很長時間以來，他們一直用它來頂門。」「我看到瓶底上蓋有印章，於是拿回去好好研究了一番，我和同事們認定它是乾隆年間為皇宮而制的瓷器。

Adrian Rathbone所在的拍賣行估計瓷瓶值2萬至4英鎊萬鎊，但是經常在BBC一檔鑒寶節目上露臉的拍賣商 Charles Hanson表示，鑒於中國市場對這類古董之興趣濃厚，瓷瓶估值可達100萬鎊。

目前，尚不清楚瓷瓶何時到達英國，但是這對夫婦的親人於1930年從一家房產銷售處購得。

A rare Chinese vase used for decades as a door stop could make £1 million at auction.

The blue and white vase was discovered as a hallway decoration in a Birmingham home after auctioneers were invited there to value its contents.

Now it is expected to attract worldwide attention when it goes under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers in Etwall, Derbyshire, on July 1.

Commenting on the find, Charles Hanson, manager of the auction house and a star of BBC1 Bargain Hunt, said: 『The vase was uncovered in a West Midland home and had previously been used for many years as a door stop.

『The current vendor inherited the item from his Great Aunt Flo in 1978. She was an antiques dealer in her native Cornwall, but despite that, appears to have had no idea as to its true value.

『She used it as a doorstop until it was passed down to her great nephew. He kept it on display as a talking point in his hallway, but after years of passing it each time he entered or left his house he decided to have it valued because he always had an inkling it could be worth something.』

Adrian Rathbone, Hansons』 associate director, has set a guide price of between £300,000 and £500,000, but the firm believes the sale price could more than double that if wealthy Chinese collectors end up in a bidding war.

Mr Rathbone said: 『On examining it, I was quite surprised at how big it was at 66cm (26in) high. Painted in blue I was particularly mesmerised by the character mark on the base of the vase.』

Adrian Rathbone, Hansons associate director, has set a guide price of between £300,000 and £500,000 for the vase

Mr Hanson added: 『It’s a quite spell-bounding vase, made in China during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the 18th Century, the vase was just possibly manufactured by the Imperial kilns for the Emperor’s Summer Palace.

『Of hexagonal outline, it is brilliantly painted in tones of cobalt blue. With boughs of pomegranate and peach alternating with flowering branches, it is a work of art, painted with the Qianlong mark to the base』.

『With important Chinese porcelain once removed from China during the 19th century and being bought back by Chinese billionaires today, pedigree and provenance is so important in a market today where later copies can easily deceive the more cautious collector.

『The provenance of this vase is good. Our client inherited the vase from a great aunt who had acquired it during her life in Cornwall in the 1920s.』

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