Chinese vase was sold to 22,500 (!!!) times more expensive than estimates
 

Chinese vase , which the trading house Sotheby's estimated the in the 800-1200 dollars , was sold for 18000000 of dollars . It is reported ArtInfo.

The reason for such a sensational jump cost steel Diverged views on the subject of dating . In the description of Sotheby's said that the vase is , apparently , to the republican period or the beginning of XX century . However, experts who arranged a bitter struggle for the lot , convinced that it was made ​​in the XVIII century, when Emperor Qianlong .

In bidding for the vase involved seven candidates . Representatives of Sotheby's declined to comment on a possible error in the dating of the subject. ArtInfo notes that , obviously , auction house experts suspect about the real -time manufacturing vases , as indicated on the mark , which is characteristic for the period of Qianlong reign .

Apparently , the error in the dating occurred even when the previous owner of the vase , who died collector Tai Tszyuntsee . Incorrectly dated had at least one item from his collection : a vase , estimated at 6-8 thousand dollars , was sold for 1.3 milliona. /lenta.ru