{"id":49046,"date":"2022-10-03T22:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/03\/chinese-vase-8m-euro-bidding-war-tianqiuping"},"modified":"2022-10-03T22:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:49:42","slug":"ordinary-chinese-vase-valued-at-e2000-sells-for-almost-e8m-after-bidding-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49046","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ordinary\u2019 Chinese vase valued at \u20ac2,000 sells for almost \u20ac8m after bidding war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tianqiuping-style porcelain sells for nearly 4,000 times its estimated value after buyers are convinced it is a rare artefact<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cordinary\u201d Chinese vase put up for auction in France and valued at \u20ac2,000 (\u00a31,745) has sold for almost \u20ac8m after a ferocious bidding war among buyers convinced it was a rare 18th-century artefact.<\/p>\n<p>At the sale in Fontainebleau near Paris, auctioneers were astonished as the offers from about 30 mainly Chinese bidders kept on coming. When the hammer fell the vase had been sold for \u20ac7.7m \u2013 almost 4,000 times its estimated value. With the seller\u2019s fees, the final purchase price was \u20ac9.12m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/03\/chinese-vase-8m-euro-bidding-war-tianqiuping\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tianqiuping-style porcelain sells for nearly 4,000 times its estimated value after buyers are convinced it is a rare artefactAn \u201cordinary\u201d Chinese vase put up for auction in France and valued at \u20ac2,000 (\u00a31,745) has sold for almost \u20ac8m after a ferocious&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,91,41,50,71,221,526,1482,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-europe","category-france","category-paris","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49047,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046\/revisions\/49047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}