Chinese vase found at house clearance sells for £43 million!

[Syris the Indomitable]

How ironic is it that a Chinese person in China bought from the British who robbed it in the first place during the opium wars.

Many Chinese artifacts surfaced in Britain in the 19th century, having been looted from Beijing's Summer Palace when it was sacked by British and French troops at the end of the Second Opium War in 1860. https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/12/international/i070139S07.DTL

Qianlong-era porcelain
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[colin1]

Its an interesting event, but also may mark a shift in power. We were the old world power, and one day China may be the world power. Now might be the tipping point.
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[Syris the Indomitable]

Let hope they go easy on us considering we revolutionised the whole world to the point it's at today, all they gave us was gun powder.
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[Paxovasa]

Luvely, jubbly

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[scorps]

its only an assumption that it was stolen during the opium wars by the way
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[Syris the Indomitable]

LOL! Paxovasa.

[colin1]

I wonder what would happen if the new owner collected it, saying he'd pay later then later said he was claiming it back for china after it was stolen by Britain and so wasnt going to pay up at all.
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[Syris the Indomitable]

Now that's not good business sense is it? Reddy's first please, they get off of us in the form of unpatriotic cheap labour exploiters.
Lets have some of them coffers back please.
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[craigT19]

i loled at the auctions houses commision!! a man stood with a little wooded hammer for 2 mins.

your then told its sold for 43 million!!.....your then told the auction house have deducted 6.8million pound in commision.



bloody expensive little wooden hammer
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[Syris the Indomitable]

I know! mad init!
Judas iscariot took his payment in gold, look what happened to him.
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[mistergixer]

[Syris the Indomitable]

LOL!

Correct on the porcelain paper making, silk production, metallurgy, the calendar, porcelain, rice cultivation, the compass, and the printing press...

Chinese Mayans, Greeks, all pioneered certain branch maths systems.
Our main maths today comes from ancient India and Greece.


3400 BC — Mesopotamia, the Sumerians invent the first numeral system, and a system of weights and measures.
3100 BC — Egypt, earliest known decimal system allows indefinite counting by way of introducing new symbols.
2800 BC — Indus Valley Civilization on the Indian subcontinent, earliest use of decimal ratios in a uniform system of ancient weights and measures, the smallest unit of measurement used is 1.704 millimetres and the smallest unit of mass used is 28 grams.
The list goes on!
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