Talk about a garage sale find! A New York family picked up a Chinese
bowl at a garage sale for $3 and found out that it's actually a 1,000-year-old
treasure worth $2.2 million:
The bowl — ceramic, 5 inches in diameter and with a saw-tooth
pattern etched around the outside — went to a London dealer, Giuseppe
Eskenazi, at Sotheby’s auction house in New York on Tuesday.
Sotheby’s said the bowl was from the Northern Song Dynasty, which
ruled China from 960 to 1127 and is known for its cultural and artistic
advances.
The auction house said the only other known bowl of similar size and
design has been in the collection of the British Museum for more than
60 years.
I know what I'll be doing this weekend: bowl huntin'! NBC News has the
story:
Here.
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