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According to the British "Daily Mail" reported on the 28th, a Chinese pen holder with a history of 400 years has been used as a daily home decoration by a British family before, and was recently auctioned off for a price of more than 160,000 pounds (about 1.37 million yuan).
The antique is a blue-and-white pen holder that was once used to house painters' brushes dating back to the kangxi emperor of China in the 17th century.
It is reported that in the 1850s, a British merchant bought this antique while trading oriental silk and porcelain in China and brought it back to England, where it was later passed on to his descendants.
Now, the family is surprised to find that the 18-centimetre-tall item, which has been placed in the home as a decoration, sold at auction for £125,000. In addition to other fees, an anonymous buyer paid £162,500 for the pen holder, more than 50 times the appraiser's estimate of £3,000.
The Daily Mail notes that oriental porcelain was once very popular among Westerners, with some Britons bringing back large quantities of porcelain from the far East, but over the past 10 years, demand for oriental porcelain in the auction market has risen sharply as Chinese collectors have sought to "buy back" these legacies.
The family also sold several other valuable clay pots that their ancestors brought back from China, one depicting the emperor meeting with officials, which sold for £22,000 (about 190,000 yuan). In total, the family received nearly £200,000 (about 1.71 million yuan).
(Editor: WDQ)