Chinese Pot: $470,000
This pot was cracked everywhere and the base had been reattached with some type of glue. Some of it had lost its color and it was donated in a measly grocery bag with multiple other things. Still, a St. Peter’s Hospice charity shop employee in England was able to identify it.
It was really a bamboo pot used for calligraphy brushes. It was carved between 1662 and 1722 by Chinese artist Gu Jue. Experts say it describes the poem “The Agreeable Life in a Land of Transcendents”. A buyer in Hong Kong eventually bought the pot for $470,000.
