This $100 antique discovered at a garage sale was just auctioned off for $2.1 million at Sotheby's
A battered Chinese statuette picked up at a Midwest garage sale for $100 was auctioned off at Sotheby’s for a stunning $2.1 million.
She put it up for sale after taking it to be valued on a St. Louis episode “Antiques Roadshow” two years ago. “I almost didn’t have a chance to acquire it, because I was having 15 people for lunch,” she told appraiser Robert Waterhouse on the show. “There was a local person who was a colorful character in Kirkwood, so I really wanted to get to his garage sale I rushed out.”
The appraiser initially thought the statuette might be from the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century. Further study has dated it back to the late Tang Dynasty, which ended in 907, or from early in the Five Dynasties period that followed. The statue features the “Cintamanicakra Avalokiteshvara,” a type of Buddha. Waterhouse estimated it was likely commissioned by an emperor, as the workmanship was so fine.
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