Best Moment: Early 15th-Century Chinese Bodhisattva Gilt Bronze
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2018
- We love this guest's reaction! Robert Waterhouse appraises an early 15th-Century Chinese Bodhisattva gilt bronze in St. Louis, Hour 1.
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Her reaction is priceless!. As he just said 100.000 thousand dollars. This was published November 2018, I understand she sold the object in March 2019 and it made 2.1 million dollars. Pleased for her, she seems to be a nice person.
Not too bad (profit wise), that is.
She does seem to be nice. I can totally see someone at home thinking...dog gone it, she'll never stop buying that garage sale crap now😂🤣. Really happy for her
100.000 x thousand dollars = 100,000,000 ..... that's a dramatic over estimate according to OP
@@JSchroederee lol!
@@and__lam1152 look where the decimal point is...
She got $2.1 million at auction (Sotheby’s, New York, March 2019).
Yes. Just read that. It was much older than the original evaluation. I think they said 700AD or there abouts.
@@stephenscherer21337 TY for the update!
The auction estimate was 60,000 to 80,000 USD.
So price realized was way above estimate!
I can't help but think that Antiques Roadshow helped to publicize this piece and brought out the deep pocket bidders.
Retirement money! Good on you .
Wow that is amazing, well he did say a very very conservative amount lol.
So it was in an old guy's collection and when he died his family just held a yard sale. Same thing we did when my mom died. I love that dealers passed over a $2,000,000 artifact for two days.
It would not be appraised for that, it was bought for that, two different things. Probably someone from Asia. An item is only as valuable as the price that someone will pay for it. There are lots of things appraised that do not even get a bid on, and something where there are multiple bidders. This item would hardly be worth 2.1 million, but someone was willing to pay that.
@@51Saffron
Money laundering.
It was meant to be hers.
@@51Saffron Pretentious twattle--you're talking nonsense. It's worth $2M because it is very old, rare if not unique, was almost certainly made for royalty, and (obviously) someone paid that price for it. And, as this piece was in an auction, it's apparent that some (or one) prospective buyer(s) were outbid at close to $2M.
They probably saw that broken arm and hand then figured nobody would buy a banged-up thing like that. Joke's on them.
I love it when this sort of thing happens because someone bought something just because they liked it.
Grand!
It is special that way, isn't it? No calculation,no envisioning how much you might make off of it or laughing at the ignorant seller's expense,just:I thought it was beautiful/cool/fun/whatever.I bought it because I liked it.
Two thousand grand!
@@mildanimal5967 ( chuckle )
You actually believe that’s the ONLY reason she bought it ?
@@psychiatry-is-eugenics Yes.
Even better news: The lunch for her 15 guests was a smashing success!
She put together a wonderful lasagne, with a nice salad.
😂
I heard ir was ribeye steaks and 100 year old wine for lunch.
@@EricPalmer_DaddyOh Betcha she went out somewhere nice after the auction! And yeah, if I was there, the order would be for ribeye.
It's the coolest thing when treasures like this are unearthed on the show.
I love that statue but her hair is lovely too!
She was so shocked it took her a while to respond--priceless.
When he says, "I think those who understand Buddhist works of art from that period would look at this object and say it's beyond a very wealthy patron's quality of bronze.", all I hear is Cha-Ching. The point being, there's not much, other than Imperial, that's Beyond Very Wealthy.
Good lord, that ugly thing. Disgusting.
@@seanleith5312 Beauty must be in the eye of the beholder - I immediately thought it was exquisite.
@@seanleith5312 It's spectacular. You lack knowledge, imagination, or both.
@@seanleith5312 , and that is why you will never make a $2million profit on a $75 purchase.
@@AFAskygoddess i don't think that's why.
One wonders about the journey of pieces like these, what have they seen?... I'm so glad this made it so far.
I’m love her reaction!
I’m love it too
Yes, she was convincing
Then it sold in march 2019 for 2.1 million not 100 thousand.
How I wish that Sotheby's could post a video of that seven minute auction. Imagine the excitement as the bidding surpassed $100,000...$500,000...$1,000,000...$2,000,000!
I know, kind of like when Claire brought in that Seymour Card Table that they appraised on the show for $250K, and then they did a follow-up episode where they showed it being auctioned at Sotheby's. The bidding started at $200K and the Antiques Roadshow cameras were watching Claire as the bidding climbed higher and higher. Finally sold for $490K and Claire was so excited in an innocent way.
Rick: "Best I can do is $40, I'm taking a gamble here".
Cash money.
My exact thoughts 💭😂
$20 bills
Francisco Silva yeah, and Frank on American Pickers - “Well.. it has the damage and the finish is worn, but I would give $35.00, IF you throw in the oil can on the shelf..”
he would bring in mark to appraise
OMG early ming dynsty... That should go to the museum
Okay Indiana.
It was late Tang
sold for 2mil
They made a mistake. It was from the Tang dynasty. About 8th century A.D.
Her reaction is priceless!!!
Can we all just take a moment and admire the women's hair...stunning!
Definitely! 👍
Yeah she's hot
WOMAN, perhaps. I only see one.
@@joekriger1252 my bad.
@@absolutetruthgirl Not bad. Just typing too quickly sometimes.
That's Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Traditionally, he has a thousand arms so that he can better help humanity.
I am going to check out my attic..wish me luck
find anything yet??
@@darlenefoster3379a whole load for junk 🙄...😀
Hopefully no murderous psychopaths hiding there....good luck!
@@Pwwh0711 thank you for that...😄,,,,no gold ..no treasure...some bowls with Chinese writing....
Thats a museum piece, we have quite a similar work in our national museum of Sri Lanka
I don’t know what I liked more, her super cute reaction or the dude behind her when he realized he was on camera 🤣🤣🤣
Beautiful and so graceful a figure ! congratulations to the lady
Her reaction. I thought she was going to drop dead from shock right there😂
Appraiser: "Price would be about 100 to 125..."
Lady: "oh good, I can make a $25 profit!"
Appraiser: "... thousand dollars."
Lady: 😳
And it sold in march 2019 for 2.1 million
Good. Such a humble lady.
He's so cute
Im so delighted for her
Thanks to Mark Harris and others for updating with the Sotheby's final sale price. YOWZA ! Talk about a Retirement Investment. While the Dealer was reviewing it, I kept thinking " I bet you'd get significantly more at Auction", because as others have noted there is some serious money in China now, and they are very concerned with bringing valuable artifacts back to China. Congrats to the woman who owned it 👍.
"I was having 15 people for lunch."
How dose she stay so slim?
Captain Farrell 🤣
The Jeffrey Dahlmer diet...😯
Awesome.
her surname is Lechter perhaps?
She likes people. She just can’t eat a whole one!
Best response i have seen , and know learning it sold for over 2 million dollars, brilliant
Wonderful piece, wonderful Lady!
Appraiser: it’s early Ming dynasty
Owner: is it Chinese
Me: 😂
Anyone else appreciate the irony of a holy icon meant to direct the mind towards Buddha’s teachings selling for over US$2M?
I think it’s hilarious.
It was also meant to please a Ming emperor and be a sign of the emperor's prestige.
I think that the Buddha himself would find it hilarious :)
Part of the beauty of it....funny.
Well, that lady sure got off the wheel of suffering when she got that check from Sotheby's.
Only irony for you....the Bhudda might smile
I love it. It’s beautiful.
Thats crazy. Good for her. 👏
Haha this is the best one ever ! It’s better than imagined winning the lottery because…. You could have something like this kicking around your house 20 years and the kids playing with it and stuff and it’s worth millions lolol! Thanks SO much. Love AR
So much for “the experts” having bypassed the piece
The damage would have turned off the dealers also unmarked Eastern art is a big unknown rabbit hole for identification.
OMG!!!
Absolutely unexpected but lovely surprise!
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Looks like Kwan Yin highlighting the sacred heart.
Truly stunned!!
I was just going to say "conservative" means a lot more then saw the Reply below! But the figure is exquisite. Lordy! I wish I had found this one!
its a really nice piece, if i saw it at a yard sale or estate sale or something for a reasonable price and i could afford it "and for me thats probably about what she paid for it if not a little less" i absolutely would have bought it. i never for a second would have ever looked at it and thought it was anywhere near that old, much less THAT valuable.
Same. It's a beautiful statue and thst is all that we would see.
I do love the fact art dealers overlooked it.
Incredible.
Wow just wow.
I'll bet she's glad she took time away from that lunch party.
Considering she apparently got 2.1 million for it at Sotheby's, I'm sure she's VERY happy.
The lady has great taste
Its appears that these Chinese artifacts are selling at far above and beyond their valuations in auctions of late. A chinese vase sold at auction in November 2020 in Ireland for €1.2 million; it had a pre auction valuation of between €800 and €1200!!
She got $2.1 million
I love how she’s smearing her fingers all over the gilt figure while the historian is avoiding even touching it with his wooden pointer..
It Is hers.👍
She thought it was worth a few thousand.
"im rich, beeeaaautch!"
Nice find for her!!!
Lovely.
Love that 3seconds of dead silence....wow..what a great find. Congratulations....keep or sell? Me.....it be hard but I think I'd sell
Amazing
I used to be an archeologist back in the 60’s to 1989. I still have a large collection of jade stone figures from my digs in China. 12,000 BC up to 500 AD time period. I wonder if it is worth much not sure who to even ask.
Lester Miller. Well Lester get on to a big name auction house they will send someone to you !
Not worth much.i will give you a£100.
@@paulhyde8817 £150!
That is absolutely an amazing story! 15th Century!!!!! If the bronze could only tell its life story, what a story it would be! Whose has 2 million dollars to spend on a small statue?
I guess that's a less pessimistic way to look at it. These stories of old white people hoarding treasures from other nations make me sick. 9/10 times they get damaged before someone realizes what it actually is
The rapidly growing number of Chinese million/billionaires trying to round up Chinese artwork to bring home.
@@andrewpearce7936 that’s a rude assumption. many extremely wealthy Chinese private collectors and museums buy these culturally significant artifacts at foreign auctions. Many of their artifacts were stolen & lost throughout history, and the country’s National Cultural Heritage adm. has been trying to search for it’s missing cultural items, especially in the last couple years.
The US, Italy, France, etc. have all been returning artifacts deemed to be stolen back to China. And private auction pieces like these are bought back by the help of private museums and research historians
plot twist: she is a cannibal and having 15 people for lunch has much darker undertones
I'm watching in 2019, and based on her reaction, one can only assume the statue has been SOLD!
It sold for 2.1 million.
Good for her.☺
Just one time at one of these, I want to see someone stand up and dance around saying, "YES!! YES!!"
I actually saw that happen once! A woman brought in an enormous civil war era pottery jug. She bought it at a yard sale for five bucks. She thought it was hideous but possibly worth some money. I believe it was estimated at 30-50 thousand.
@@Mybpeterson That's fabulous! Good for her!
they're in shock. Besides the camera wouldn't be able to follow them
Good for her!
Clearly the dealers didn't know wtf they were looking at when they passed it up! That's amazing! And what a beautiful piece.
They were looking for a snoopy lunchbox.
Chinese antiquities was probably not their specialty.
@@sharksport01 🤣
Everytime I see segments like this, "I paid X at a yard sale", "Would you believe me if I said it's worth Xⁿ?", I wonder if there's someone at home watching, gouging into the wood of their armchair with their fingernails, going, "§€&$¿#!!!"
hahaha
Every. Single. Video.
Im usually clutching at my tinkle .
I always shout in wingdings when I'm angry.
If I saw this at a yard sale I'd pass it off as junk too.
WOW!!
WOW!
3:26 the best REALLY? Reaction ever
To me it’s worth a hundred dollars said she because that’s what I paid for it and then says are you kidding me after a pause from the quote of what it’s real worth, love it 🥰
*Rick Harrison:*
“I’m taking all of the risk here. I can give you $15, that’s more than fair.”
Cause it could just sit here, best I can do.
@@annieseaside
Haha! Right!? 😂
Look, it could sit there for over a year.
@Pink Alien
Whoah, someone is taking things way too serious. Who hurt you?
@Pink Alien It's an entertaining show. The father, Rick's dad, really brought it home. He did not suffer fools at all.
600 years old. THAT’S antique!
It was found to be from the late Tang dynasty, so it's actually 1300 years old. Sold for $2 million at Sothebys in 2019
Idol
beauuUtiful
Good for her.
Now I know what the old Steely Dan song was about.
Good Luck
2:56 : When you are leaving your dentist after a routine check-up.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can believe it!
Straight down to les gold n silver pawn shop in Detroit...
Jackpot!
Rick would offer you $1000, he is taking all the risk and has to put it in a nice frame.
500 cash money and im taking the risk here...
If the arm wasn’t broken I could give you more.. but... She got 2 million at auction btw
lol
Sick of Rick answers!
@@juliamartin4141 Chum, go write her up.🤑
I want to know what other rare antiques were at this garage sale she bought it from.
Nice
good luck
3:25...stunned mullet
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara with One Thousand Hands and One Thousand Eyes (Qianshou Qianyan Guanyin)
Forget all the Rolex watches, THIS is a priceless object. The fact that she bought it so long after the dealers had picked the place clean - or at least what they considered "clean" - shows how karma works sometimes.
I love how she just paused when he told her the value. Just paused, said nothing. The look of stunned silence.
When my mam and dad died, they had a house load of very old antiques, my brother took over and took it all and sold it at jumble sales, I know some things would of made good money but god knows what he sold for hardly nothing. It hurts.
I'm sorry.
That’s awesome! I think that it got so much more at auction because it’s Chinese. Usually Chinese artifacts sell for a lot more because China has the most billionares in the world and many want to buy old items like this.
monkey220ms Well actually America has the most billionaires. Chinese culture rewards bringing ancestral art back to the mother land
She got $2.1 million
it got a lot more because it was mis-appraised on the show. with the benefit of more time they were able to determine that it was a much older piece which drove up the value
He says a conservative retail estimate is from $100 to $125 …. she’s happy, then he drops …. thousand dollars. Her utter shock told the tale.
And she ended up getting $2.1 million at auction
aaaaaaaaand im off to the flea market, 100 bucks in my pocket
beautiful buddha blessings
Her voice goes right through me....thank god she was almost speechless when he gave her the value lol
I'm sure the dealers have unfortunately seen this episode and cried multiple times.
ming dynasty things are very rare and expensive also ming yonglo dynasty things are verry expensive mostly beyound million.
I do wish it had gone to a museum for many many people to see. It belongs with
heritage of the whole human race.
Wow
I’m guessing the dealers saw the damage and said nope! Dealers make mistakes too, but I’m wondering what it was worth 20 years ago when she bought it?
wow
Holy crap… 🤯
Omg i have one very similar to this! How do we tell if its bronze?
sunnie phothisarn break it to half , and if you see gold colour inside then it’s Bronze .
Take it in for appraisal, more likely than not it’s a reproduction for the tourist market but it can’t hurt to find out
Bronze is extra heavy. Visit some bronzes in an antique mall, you'll see. However, real bronze pieces are not common. Many an old metal sculpture is pot metal with a bronzed finish.
Send it to me, I'll let you know.
Sir I have old antique brass statue wht i do for sale
Great find for the lady. She's a millionaire now 🙏
Time to start hitting up estate sales. I’m honestly interested in estate jewels. I never was until I started watching these clips but I’m almost certain I could spot Tiffany from across the room.
I think its indian Buddha statue by dressing style and its very beautiful