18th Century Chinese Bowl Auctioned at Charterhouse
Published November 4th, 2008
A late 18th century Chinese bowl, decorated flowers and foliage in underglaze blue, sold for £18,000 at the Charterhouse October auction.
“As provincial auctioneers, Chinese ceramics are notoriously difficult to get right as they have copied and reproduced their own wares for literally centuries.” Commented Richard Bromell. “We often throw too much caution to the wind and we were a little late on picking up on the importance of this lot. However, when we did realise that we were looking at a saleroom sleeper, we went straight into overdrive contacting all our London and Hong Kong collectors and dealers. On the day, the bidding ended up between a Chinese dealer against a top London specialist, who had cancelled a good lunch appointment to be at the sale, with the hammer falling to the London specialist.”
Charterhouse is now accepting entries for their two day November auction of silver, jewellery, watches and antiques, with nearly 300 lots of modern Royal Crown Derby, Worcester and other good ceramics, followed by a two day December sale with trains and railwayana on day one followed by clocks and collectors items. Next up is their first sale of the New Year, with a major collection of Border Fine Arts being combined with their popular Beswick auction in January.
Auction info www.charterhouse-auctions.co.uk
