A four-inch hand-sized vase bought from a UK thrift store for just $3.30 is expected to sell for up to $11,800 at auction. The vase is the work of late Japanese ceramist and cloisonné artist Namikawa Yasuyuki, who lived between 1845 and 1927.
The 10-centimeter masterpiece was spotted by a couple in the southeastern English county of Surrey, on the edge of London, according to Canterbury Auction Galleries in a press release.
They suspected the etchings could be significant but had no idea what the item could be worth, according to the auction house. “The beautiful work by Yasuyuki’s Kyoto studio is held in several collections and is highly sought-after,” said specialist Cliona Kilroy, co-director of Canterbury Auction Galleries, in the release. “He and Namikawa Sōsuke were the most famous cloisonné artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries - the ‘Golden Age’ of enamelling in Japan.”
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