£567,000 - for a chipped plate! (From Bournemouth Echo)
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£567,000 - for a chipped plate!
3:00pm Tuesday 19th February 2013 in News
Richard Bromell with the plate
AN Italian pottery plate has sold for an astonishing £567,000 at a North Dorset auction.
Charterhouse in Sherborne auctioned the plate, which was chipped, on Thursday.
Partner and auctioneer Richard Bromell, pictured, said: “It was almost an Only Fools and Horses moment, as the pottery plate was hanging on a wire frame in the client’s cottage.
“Not only that, most of it was hidden by a door which was always kept open.
“At first, I expected the pottery plate to be a 19th century copy but after researching it, had it confirmed by Professor Timothy Wilson at The Ashmolean as being made in Urbino, Italy around 1540.”
On the auction day, specialist dealers turned up and battled it out with private collectors with the hammer finally falling to a London dealer.
Comments(4)
elite50
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8:48pm Tue 19 Feb 13
aerolover wrote:Another Philistine!
Just goes to show, the rich still have money to buy expensive rubbish. David needs to hit them harder, screw them like he is screwing us.
Fortunately this "council house" philosophy has not completely overtaken our country!
It is not a crime to be rich but envious greed is immoral and cheap.
If you dont like being poor get 2 jobs and make yourself rich. Maybe you can earn enough to buy a treasure, maybe a book on art possibly.
aerolover
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9:13am Wed 20 Feb 13
elite50
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9:54am Wed 20 Feb 13
aerolover says...
5:46pm Tue 19 Feb 13