This incredible sum is almost indecent.
Saturday afternoon at Me Osenat's auction room in Fontainebleau, a large Chinese Tianqiuping vase in porcelain and polychrome enamels sold for 7.7 million euros!
Or 9.121 million euros including costs.
A record for this object “in the blue-white style with a globular body and a long cylindrical neck” 54 cm high and 49 cm in diameter, decorated with nine ferocious dragons and clouds… No date is specified in the catalogue.
That afternoon, at the Hôtel d'Albe, there were ten people in the room and fifteen on the telephone… The buyer was a Chinese who won the bet by telephone.
The starting price was set at 1500 euros
Auctioneer since 1976, Jean-Pierre Osenat has never seen this: “It exceeds the price of Napoleon's saber at the Battle of Marengo in 1800 because it sold for 4.2 million euros in 2007!
It's hardly believable!
The Chinese have a look at Asian art that we don't have…” The funny thing is that the famous vase was put at a price… at 1,500 euros following the expertise requested by the services of Me Osenat.
“It was the price of a 20th century vase.
It seems that is no longer the case!
he smiles.
Fontainebleau October 1, 2022This Chinese Tianqiuping vase was bought at auction on Saturday afternoon in Fontainebleau for the sum of 7.7 million euros by a Chinese customer by telephone.
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The very story of this sale has something improbable about it.
The “saleswoman” is a 59-year-old woman who lives in the DOM-TOMs.
She inherited this vase from her mother who lived in Brittany.
She contacts the study of Me Osenat in Paris avenue de Breteuil.
He decides to offer the object in his sale of October 1 devoted to furniture and works of art in Fontainebleau.
He will learn that his grandmother was a Parisian collector!
Something to dream about all those who have to sort and empty houses and attics at the painful time of inheritance...
"It's as if she had won the EuroMillions"
“When I told her, she didn't believe it!
She no longer knows where she lives!
She's a simple woman who lives in shorts and fangs all day!
She finds it hard to realize that she has lived more than thirty years next to this very valuable object!
exclaims Me Osenat.
For him, this incredible case also summarizes “the beautiful story of the public sale.
This lady could have sold this vase to an antique dealer, a second-hand dealer.
The vase would have gone for 1,000 or 1,500 euros.
With us, with the Internet and through competition, the price it obtains is the result of transparency!
We serve customers.
It's like she won the EuroMillions!
7 million euros, it changes your life!
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And to conclude: “This profession is the quest for the permanent Grail!
Everything is possible !
Apart from the Loto, there are only auctions to see things like this!
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According to him, “this vase is not intended to remain on a table.
I think it will end up in a museum…” However, this Sunday, it is impossible to see the object in real life in Fontainebleau.
"It's in the trunk and frankly, at that price, I don't dare touch it anymore!"
exclaims the auctioneer.
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