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11-19-2004, 05:19 PM
Old crab dish brings $5.7-million
Photo: Bonhams & Butterfields/AP
Rare and large example of a Ming underglaze copper red dish recently fetched a record $5.7-million (U.S.) in an auction.
Associated Press
POSTED AT 8:01 PM EST Thursday, Nov 18, 2004
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San Francisco - A hand-me-down dish used for crab dinners fetched a record $5.7-million (U.S.) in an auction this week, after art experts determined it was extremely rare Ming dynasty porcelain.
The flowery, copper-red plate - which set a record for Ming art sold in a U.S. auction - once belonged to Elinor Majors Carlisle, a Berkeley
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Photo: Bonhams & Butterfields/AP
Rare and large example of a Ming underglaze copper red dish recently fetched a record $5.7-million (U.S.) in an auction.
Associated Press
POSTED AT 8:01 PM EST Thursday, Nov 18, 2004
Advertisement
San Francisco - A hand-me-down dish used for crab dinners fetched a record $5.7-million (U.S.) in an auction this week, after art experts determined it was extremely rare Ming dynasty porcelain.
The flowery, copper-red plate - which set a record for Ming art sold in a U.S. auction - once belonged to Elinor Majors Carlisle, a Berkeley
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041118.wdish1118/BNStory/International/