it's owner, who prefers to remain anonymous, carried the vase to Duke's auction house in Dorchester, Dorset, in a cardboard box, the 11.5in-high 'moonflask' dates from between 1403 and 1424 and is a very rare discovery, 'Moonflasks' are so called because their curved shape was likened to that of the moon, Guy Schwinge, from Duke's, said: 'When my colleague initially showed me what had arrived in a cardboard box I could not believe my eyes, the vase is in perfect condition and it is amazing to think that it has survived unscathed for almost 600 years, Giuseppe Eskenazi, one of the world's leading dealers in Chinese art who is based in Mayfair, London, said of the vase: 'it is very fine and should do very well, it is very rare and in 50 years I have only seen three flasks like this' well some one has had a real share of good luck, I just love stories of good fortune like this.
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