This bowl going for $10 million
This bowl going for $10 million The price for this ancient work will bowl you over. Sotheby’s auctioneers hope to fetch $10 million from this centuries-old piece of fine Chinese craftsmanship. The exquisite blue-and-white bowl has been traced to the Chenghua period (1465-87) of the Ming Dynasty. That particular era of Chinese history was renowned for the production of fine porcelain works, such as this bowl. The work is known as the “Cunliffe Musk-Mallow Palace Bowl,” named after the late art collector Rolf Cunliffe. He acquired more than a thousand ancient Chinese jades, pots, bowls and carvings. The bowl is… View Article
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