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Culture Insider: Rare porcelains with high prices

Updated: 2014-12-04 07:00
(Chinaculture.org)

Blue and white palace bowl from the Chenghua period (1465-87)

Price: 111 million yuan

Date: Oct 23, 2010

Auction house: Hong Kong Sotheby

Porcelains from the Chenghua period (1465-87) can be considered the epitome of Jingdezhen potters. The bowl is an archetypal example and no other piece of Chenghua blue-and-white better embodies the special appeal of that period. The musk-mallow bowl is one of only two bowls in this design still remaining in private hands.

Culture Insider: Rare porcelains with high prices

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