A Chinese Ming-style blue and white yuhuchunping vase made 180,000 at Sheppards in Durrow today.
This white jade Qing seal made 630,000 at Sheppards in Durrow. (Click on image to enlarge).
The base stamp with Sheppards seal of approval. (Click on image to enlarge).
A Chinese Qing period white jade seal made 630,000 at Sheppards in Durrow today. The top lot came at the culmination of a highly successful three day Dublin and Provincial auction. From the Marie Louise Beauvoir collection the jade seal, just three centimeters high, was a classic sleeper lot. It had been estimated at a mere 4,000-6,000. The highest price ever paid for an antique lot at auction in Ireland came after a 20 minute bidding battle between a buyer on the telephone from Beijing and another on the internet from the Chinese city of Jingdezhen.
The second most expensive lot in the sale, a Chinese Ming blue and white yuhuchunping vase estimated at 150,000-200,000 sold for 180,000.