I like so much,
sold by a General Haughton to Bluett's in 1948 for £25, the 15th century Ming dynasty bowl was then sold to Otto and Gertrude Harriman in 1948 for £65, a tidy sum in those days equivalent to some £1,600 in today's money, they both had a passion for collecting Chinese art, the bowl would have been used in dice games, it is dated from the Xuande Emperor of the Ming dynasty who ruled between 1425 and 1435,
after the death of Mrs Harriman in 1970, the collection was loaned the Nottingham Castle Museum where it has been ever since until the family decided to auction part of it, today's value? some 84 times more than the estimate of £20,000, it went for over £1.6million, good luck for the family or what?
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