definitely he did great in recognizing the authenticity and value of the object. Most people would probably just walk pass it in a thrift shop or garage sale without giving it a second thought. There's a fine line between junk and treasures and that's what make this show great.
The Chinese government has been paying 5-10 times the value of these items and are bringing them all back to China that is why these prices are so high.
I collect antique bottles. I went to an estate sale that was to run Friday - Monday. I worked weekends so I could only go on Monday, my day off. I expected the place to be picked clean but I went anyways. I am so glad I did. There wasn't much left honestly and I was not particularly optimistic. But when I got to the kitchen my heart skipped a beat. In the window was a gorgeous display of colored old bottles I went to reach for one when the person running the sale said, "Oh those are all Wheatons so they're not terribly valuable." She was mostly right. I had recognized them. Wheaton bottles are souvenir reproductions made in the mid to late 20th century and usually miniature in size and often come with a tiny cork. Bottle collectors, serious bottle collectors always shun them and not many people actually collect them as they made a lot. But it wasn't the Wheatons that caught my eyes. It was the bunch of old poison and ink bottles that were mixed in between them that caught my attention. A cheap lesser valuable umbrella ink typically goes for $30-$60. Pale green or dark amber are the least valuable colors. Cobalt blue is usually the most valuable you are likely to find and they go for $100-$400 depending on various factors. The seven cobalt blue umbrella inks were the least valuable bottles in the window next to the Wheatons. There were three red and two yellow ones as well and those can sometimes fetch over a grand. But the collection of tiny poison bottles with "poison" or a skull and crossbones on them, those were the truly nice ones as they were in every color of the rainbow including rare "clambroth" as well as red and yellow two very rare colors not to mention cobalt blue, cornflower blue and deep Kelly green. But my favorite was an exceedingly rare "slag" bottle as it was about six inches tall, was in perfect condition, had both "POISON" embossed on it as well as two sides with the skull and crossbones (very rare combination) and an intact paper label from a chemist shop in London dated 1872 with the wordS "COCAINE" and "TINCTURE OF CANNABIS" with another skull and crossbones on the label. It had a cork that looked a hundred years old. But the most interesting part was the pattern of the slag glass which I am sure was unintentional on the part of the bottle maker but it consisted of swirls of yellow, clambroth, red, green and cobalt blue and the green swirl was in the shape of a cannabis leaf or nearly so. I asked the sale manager what she would take for the bottles and she said $10 for the whole lot. I'd have given her a hundred times that had she asked. I could not get them packed up and home with me soon enough. That was over 25 years ago and I have had a few offers for that last bottle. The highest and most recent offer was five years ago. He offered me $2500 for it. Now that's no two million but for a $10 investment it ain't bad and that was just for one bottle.
@@rw3915 shut up or prove that it was stolen. China is vast and has been it's own power for a long time. They have plenty of things from the west and other parts of the east themselves. Their civilization is pre-historic, they have been through wars, been invaders themselves, and where we are at today doesn't change ownership in this. Go ask for reparations somewhere else.
Such a lovely lady, I'm so happy for her. Nice as can be, found a piece that professionals dismiss because it was damaged but she loved it. Bought it and had a 2000x profit. Nice retirement for a nice lady
@@jmbwithcats, towards the end of the video, as the interview concluded. The appraiser said it sold for in excess of two million dollars. But that includes a buyers premium.
@@jmbwithcats Watch the video until the very end. The piece sold, at auction, for $2M (which includes a buyer's premium). The Antiques Roadshow on-the-fly estimate was $100k.
Rob Edmund you said if you buy what you love it’ll never fail, and I said unless it’s drugs which is obviously implying 1) drugs are bad and 2) your a moron for thinking I said anything about 15th century Chinese drugs like wtf 😂😂
Proud. Proud and worried. Proud thar their work stood the test of time and the quality is still liked. Worried about if their intent is still understandable as they wished to convey. Although some artists still get that knowing, quiet, little smile seeing the happiness it brings.
I have been watching the show for years. This gentleman's explanation of the challenge appraisers experience due to their limited time with each guest articulated perfectly what I've thought for as long as I've been watching. In the end, everyone got the value wrong but the market. That's the beauty of auctions.
You could literally see the processing go on for a few seconds like "wait he didn't just say 100 to 125 dollars ...no he said thousand.... wait no ...that can't be right ....wait....are you serious" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The greatest back track ever. I can imagine he was embarrassed, but he tried his best to explain away his lack of knowledge on that particular piece. How wonderful for her. I am glad the grasping dealers did not find it at the boot sale and she did.
Definitely stated the bodhisattva was indicating Imperial quality. Missing the base therefore identifying markings. Demonstrating a well trained eye for details easily overlook, as the dealers did at the time she acquired it. So well done 🙂
This is his job. He gets commissions from rich people if he's seen to be a great expert on his particular artistic expertise, which appears to be ancient Chinese art. He's probably angling for a position at the creme-de-la-creme of appraisers--Sotheby's or Christie's. You earn prestige and a fatter paycheck if you end up there. He's going to be defensive because he doesn't want to lose future job opportunities. His professional reputation is on the line!
If you look at the original video, there were a ton of people coitizing him for undervaluing the object. A lot of ignorant people, but still. He probably got some flak for "low balling" the appraisal from people who don't know any better.
Great find! She had a great eye and sense, of not hesitating to pay the measly $75-$100 for an object that, obviously, no one else took a liking to! Congrats!!
Keeping in mind that auction houses are different from roadshows, "estimating" the worth of an item may or may not be as close to its actual market value. Considering that the piece have already been seen on TV and Internet might have actually increased its price tag, plus the bidding stage and the auction house name could also be indicative of its high value.
And anything connected to China has the potential to go off at auction since there's a lot of new money in China and they want to bring these artifacts back to China so they're willing to pay way more than collectors in the US for them.
A few years ago I visited the museum in the forbidden city. They had a couple of similarly sized figures, and it is remarkable that they have survived for a thousand years even as part of the royal collection, considering the centuries of back and forth struggles of power in China. Never mind one that has been outside that bubble for god knows how long!
Yeh, you gotta remember that these guys/girls on AR have literally minutes to appraise coachloads of items that are coming through their door. He knew it was valuable, so in that respect he got the appraisal absolutely correct. The fact that it sold for much more was only after weeks & months of further research into the piece
Even though he was off on the exact age of the object, kudos to this appraiser for knowing he was looking at treasure and not trash within the time constraints. That takes alot of expertise. And it changed someones life.
I watched this episode and the next day I found a bronze Ganesh at a yard sale. Everyone keeps telling me to have it appraised but I'm so in love with it...
He said the buyer's premium was $2 million. The buyer's premium is an additional fee on top of the hammer price, generally 10-15% of the sale price. That would mean it sold for $20-30 million.
@@TriGuy51 Negative. I auction for a living. The buyers premium as he stated was $2 million and that it sold in excess. He didn't or wasn't at freedom to disclose the amount it sold for,only what the premium was, which is standard practice for privacy matters. The seller isn't going to sell for less than what the auction house receives from the seller's fees in addition to what the buyer pays, being an additional 10-15%.
Think about the luck it takes to find things like this and consider how much valuable items get thrown in the trash, destroyed or melted down for their metal. Man. All of the terrible things that could have happened to this piece but didn’t. It’s mind boggling it made it this far.
In fairness to his appraisal he did say “very conservative”. Also when you get two rich Chinese oligarchs that have two million of extra dollars to spend frivolously, two million dollars is a drop in the bucket. Someone wrote a check and thought nothing of it
Maybe the person who sold this sculpture to the lady was a bodhisattva in disguised. And maybe the person who bought the sculpture from the lady was also a bodhisattva too. My god! 2 million dollars! I wonder what kind of life she's living in now. It must be amazing! A garage sale that went for 2 days; a seller who was cheerful and colorful in character. The object was destined for that lady. Reminds me of the scene from 'The Power of Now' book where the beggar was asking people for money for days only until he come across one passerby who told the beggar to look inside the box that the beggar had been sitting on for awhile.
Um... I have one of these! It may have been made from a brass shell in Thailand. But it looks a lot the same. These valuations blow my mind. Several lifetimes of worth in one object.
It's missing an arm and a hand, and still someone pays 2 million for it? But what do you do with the statue? Look at it every day? You could find a similar piece in a museum and look at it without having to pay 2 million. I'll never understand collectors, but I'm very happy for the lady who sold it.
The Antiques Roadshow appraiser said Ming (roughly 1370-1640 AD or 380-650 years old) and the people at Sotheby’s who sold it listed it as Tang Dynasty (roughly 620-910 AD or 1110-1400 years old). Very old, but not 2000 years.
Why? She bought and paid for it fairly. Plus it was from a estate sale. The person who owned it was dead. The "dealers" came in and had plenty of opportunity to buy it before she did.
BanthemOnCraftcadia because that would be the respectful and courteous thing to do. AKA called being a good person but apparently you don’t believe in that 😂
You did good guy. You knew what you were looking at and had you had more time to research I bet you would have gotten closer. No telling what the auction market will do. You knew she had something really good though and that is to be admired. I am married to the grand daughter of your contemporary, the guy that started this, and she loved your story. Especially the part about, you knew it was old...
Can someone place the appraiser’s accent for me? If it is British, could be so kind as to identify what area specifically? His accent is very unique and nice.
I feel like every time he paused while he was speaking (like 100 times it felt like), he was trying to concentratye on wrangling his eyes to keep them from floating off into space.
buddy you don't have to defend yourself for a small mistake in an appraisal you did great!
definitely he did great in recognizing the authenticity and value of the object. Most people would probably just walk pass it in a thrift shop or garage sale without giving it a second thought. There's a fine line between junk and treasures and that's what make this show great.
Agreed. You can’t know it all, all of the time.
@Abe McGee....you're exactly right ! As thr lady stated, art dealers had walked by the piece for 2 DAYS without realizing its value !
Very much agreed!
So British
$2M final auction value. That's incredible!
Spoiler alert!! 😝
The Chinese government has been paying 5-10 times the value of these items and are bringing them all back to China that is why these prices are so high.
@Bekah The irony with China is endless. I'm sick of hearing about them.
Felorn6863369 nah, Americans just launch drone strikes and invade foreign countries under the guise of “self-defense”
Felorn6863369 by franchising McDonald’s of course. You desperately need the rest of the world fatter
I collect antique bottles. I went to an estate sale that was to run Friday - Monday. I worked weekends so I could only go on Monday, my day off. I expected the place to be picked clean but I went anyways. I am so glad I did. There wasn't much left honestly and I was not particularly optimistic. But when I got to the kitchen my heart skipped a beat. In the window was a gorgeous display of colored old bottles I went to reach for one when the person running the sale said, "Oh those are all Wheatons so they're not terribly valuable." She was mostly right. I had recognized them. Wheaton bottles are souvenir reproductions made in the mid to late 20th century and usually miniature in size and often come with a tiny cork. Bottle collectors, serious bottle collectors always shun them and not many people actually collect them as they made a lot. But it wasn't the Wheatons that caught my eyes. It was the bunch of old poison and ink bottles that were mixed in between them that caught my attention. A cheap lesser valuable umbrella ink typically goes for $30-$60. Pale green or dark amber are the least valuable colors. Cobalt blue is usually the most valuable you are likely to find and they go for $100-$400 depending on various factors. The seven cobalt blue umbrella inks were the least valuable bottles in the window next to the Wheatons. There were three red and two yellow ones as well and those can sometimes fetch over a grand. But the collection of tiny poison bottles with "poison" or a skull and crossbones on them, those were the truly nice ones as they were in every color of the rainbow including rare "clambroth" as well as red and yellow two very rare colors not to mention cobalt blue, cornflower blue and deep Kelly green. But my favorite was an exceedingly rare "slag" bottle as it was about six inches tall, was in perfect condition, had both "POISON" embossed on it as well as two sides with the skull and crossbones (very rare combination) and an intact paper label from a chemist shop in London dated 1872 with the wordS "COCAINE" and "TINCTURE OF CANNABIS" with another skull and crossbones on the label. It had a cork that looked a hundred years old. But the most interesting part was the pattern of the slag glass which I am sure was unintentional on the part of the bottle maker but it consisted of swirls of yellow, clambroth, red, green and cobalt blue and the green swirl was in the shape of a cannabis leaf or nearly so. I asked the sale manager what she would take for the bottles and she said $10 for the whole lot. I'd have given her a hundred times that had she asked. I could not get them packed up and home with me soon enough. That was over 25 years ago and I have had a few offers for that last bottle. The highest and most recent offer was five years ago. He offered me $2500 for it. Now that's no two million but for a $10 investment it ain't bad and that was just for one bottle.
Fantastic story!
Nunya thank you for telling your bottle story. Fascinating.
Can you post a video of these bottles and tag me? I'm curious now lol
Great story, wished most comments were as well written, good luck with your adventures
Fabulous story! Wonderful...
Her reaction of the valuation starting at 3:13 is priceless. Now imagine her react when it sold for $2 Million.......
I would legit pay money to have seen her face at the auction.
Imagine the reaction of the person who sold it to her for 100 bucks watching this and realizing he basically gave away 1,999,900 dollars.
@@rw3915 shut up or prove that it was stolen. China is vast and has been it's own power for a long time. They have plenty of things from the west and other parts of the east themselves. Their civilization is pre-historic, they have been through wars, been invaders themselves, and where we are at today doesn't change ownership in this. Go ask for reparations somewhere else.
@@JGunit and all those dealers that passed it by! Most likely for furniture and "bigger" items who's value was in the $100's-$1,000's!!!
Kirkwood - my home town! How fun.
Such a lovely lady, I'm so happy for her. Nice as can be, found a piece that professionals dismiss because it was damaged but she loved it. Bought it and had a 2000x profit. Nice retirement for a nice lady
20,000x
Jay bwahaha get a calculator out, you dont have enough fingers ! It’s 20,000x the max price she paid of $100.
@Jay 🤣🤣 when things backfire..
@Jay he didn't say percentage profit 😂😂😂
Hey! All you math zealots! If you wanted to do it properly do it on an abacus!!
Holy crap 2 million! That's insane. What a find.
Where'd you get the number 2 million? They said 100,000
@@jmbwithcats He says it in the interview. Appraised for and sold for can vary wildly.
@@jmbwithcats, towards the end of the video, as the interview concluded. The appraiser said it sold for in excess of two million dollars. But that includes a buyers premium.
@@jmbwithcats He did say 2 million in the interview.
@@jmbwithcats Watch the video until the very end. The piece sold, at auction, for $2M (which includes a buyer's premium). The Antiques Roadshow on-the-fly estimate was $100k.
I could listen to this appraiser talk all day long!
The Antiques Roadshow has been a lot of people rich or at least a lot more financially comfortable for their 20+ years. Great show!
seen
Back when "Made in China" really meant something. Good for her! Buy what you love. That will never fail you.
Rob Edmund unless it’s drugs
@@barkacademies3829 If you're buying drugs made in 15th century China, you have bigger issues than most of your friends most think.
Rob Edmund you said if you buy what you love it’ll never fail, and I said unless it’s drugs which is obviously implying 1) drugs are bad and 2) your a moron for thinking I said anything about 15th century Chinese drugs like wtf 😂😂
😂
I sometimes wonder how the artists would feel if they knew that their work was still being appreciated 600 years later.
If it is in fact Tang Dynasty, that'd be a minimum of 1100 years!
Proud. Proud and worried.
Proud thar their work stood the test of time and the quality is still liked. Worried about if their intent is still understandable as they wished to convey.
Although some artists still get that knowing, quiet, little smile seeing the happiness it brings.
This guy likes what he does. Good on him. Great interview and segment. Congratulations to the lady.
I have been watching the show for years. This gentleman's explanation of the challenge appraisers experience due to their limited time with each guest articulated perfectly what I've thought for as long as I've been watching. In the end, everyone got the value wrong but the market. That's the beauty of auctions.
When she hears the first estimate and responds quietly " Really? Are you really serious?" Lovely!
Loved the stunned expression on her face when she first heard the estimated value.
she was blown away...
You could literally see the processing go on for a few seconds like "wait he didn't just say 100 to 125 dollars ...no he said thousand.... wait no ...that can't be right ....wait....are you serious" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Imagine her expression when she found out what it sold for at auction!
I wonder how the original owner felt about selling the piece for $100 and finding out it was worth 2 million.
If I recall it was a probate sale, so the owner didn't feel a thing.
The original owner has been dead for centuries.
oops
If the owner was alive once you sell something it is sold you don't sell something then go back and grieve mourn or try to recoup after the fact.
Ester, it is unwise to do so but many people do unwise things every day.
The Chinese market has come a long way. As soon as the appraiser said it was likely 'imperial' I knew it would go for mega bucks.
Yes, there are a lot of rich Chinese buying up Chinese artifacts and bringing them back to China.
@@RonGee That was my favourite bit about this, him saying the word "repatriated" :)
Thank god the west brought items out of China otherwise there would be nothing left.
@@joshuasterling2144 seriously tho, the Cultural Revolution really fucked China
the stuff dreams are made of :) ........keep collecting everyone
The greatest back track ever. I can imagine he was embarrassed, but he tried his best to explain away his lack of knowledge on that particular piece. How wonderful for her. I am glad the grasping dealers did not find it at the boot sale and she did.
but kudos to him for knowing it was genuine treasure
Definitely stated the bodhisattva was indicating Imperial quality. Missing the base therefore identifying markings. Demonstrating a well trained eye for details easily overlook, as the dealers did at the time she acquired it. So well done 🙂
oh dude, it's OK, don't be so self-conscious! you did fine.
He did seem a little defensive, but he’s right he only has a few minutes to appraise it.
This is his job. He gets commissions from rich people if he's seen to be a great expert on his particular artistic expertise, which appears to be ancient Chinese art. He's probably angling for a position at the creme-de-la-creme of appraisers--Sotheby's or Christie's. You earn prestige and a fatter paycheck if you end up there. He's going to be defensive because he doesn't want to lose future job opportunities. His professional reputation is on the line!
If you look at the original video, there were a ton of people coitizing him for undervaluing the object. A lot of ignorant people, but still. He probably got some flak for "low balling" the appraisal from people who don't know any better.
Lovely; the object, the guest and the expert all.
WOW! I actually cried out when I heard what it sold for. What a find.
Great find! She had a great eye and sense, of not hesitating to pay the measly $75-$100 for an object that, obviously, no one else took a liking to! Congrats!!
This guy is professional as they come.
What shocks me is even with the arm and base gone it’s still worth a lot!
Her reaction to the appraisal was priceless, I can’t imagine what she did when it sold for 2 mil
Probably fell off her chair in a dead faint. I would have. Haha!
Omg 😮 wtf FTW 2 million dollars for a garage sale yard sale purchase !!! That is a major life changer !!!
I just love this guy! Humble, knowledgeable and it's always better to value conservatively.
Keeping in mind that auction houses are different from roadshows, "estimating" the worth of an item may or may not be as close to its actual market value. Considering that the piece have already been seen on TV and Internet might have actually increased its price tag, plus the bidding stage and the auction house name could also be indicative of its high value.
And anything connected to China has the potential to go off at auction since there's a lot of new money in China and they want to bring these artifacts back to China so they're willing to pay way more than collectors in the US for them.
One of my favorite clips.
I’m so happy for the woman.
That some return on $100, wow!
For something that is at least 1,100 years old, the damage seems of trivial importance. Amazing.
A few years ago I visited the museum in the forbidden city. They had a couple of similarly sized figures, and it is remarkable that they have survived for a thousand years even as part of the royal collection, considering the centuries of back and forth struggles of power in China. Never mind one that has been outside that bubble for god knows how long!
Yeh, you gotta remember that these guys/girls on AR have literally minutes to appraise coachloads of items that are coming through their door. He knew it was valuable, so in that respect he got the appraisal absolutely correct. The fact that it sold for much more was only after weeks & months of further research into the piece
Even though he was off on the exact age of the object, kudos to this appraiser for knowing he was looking at treasure and not trash within the time constraints. That takes alot of expertise. And it changed someones life.
That is a real life changer. Good for her.
imagine her face if he'd told her $2M. i loved her reaction. classy lady.
Bodhisattva, would you take me by the hand
Can you show me the shine of your Japan
The sparkle of your china, can you show me
Always think of Steely Dan anytime I see the word Bodhisattva
Couldn’t help noticing he looked like a young Indiana Jones. Then I wondered if he was thinking this piece belongs in a museum.
He's great too.
E C he’s an Aussie 🇦🇺
Oi oi oi
I watched this episode and the next day I found a bronze Ganesh at a yard sale. Everyone keeps telling me to have it appraised but I'm so in love with it...
Love Ganesha, good for you!
I'm going to conservatively estimate the value between 100-125...dollars.
He's a genuinely good guy.
I hope this lady runs to her nearest convenience store and buys a lottery ticket next. She deserves to hit the jackpot again!
Would love to see the ladies expression if she happened to be at the auction when it went up over $100000 towards its final selling price!
1966 , I remember the street and the house , A Man gave me $10.00 for a watermelon and 2 tomatoes. I bet she felt like that amazing !
*Makes you wonder how amazing the other pieces were that the art dealers bought up!*
Probably some furniture that went for low four figures! :p
Love his dimples! They are PRICELESS LOL.
Incredible, i hope it helped her a lot.
So she paid $100 and it auctioned for two million dollars! Wonderful find.!!
He said the buyer's premium was $2 million. The buyer's premium is an additional fee on top of the hammer price, generally 10-15% of the sale price. That would mean it sold for $20-30 million.
@@DeathAngelHRA 2.2 - 2.3 million
@@TriGuy51 Negative. I auction for a living. The buyers premium as he stated was $2 million and that it sold in excess. He didn't or wasn't at freedom to disclose the amount it sold for,only what the premium was, which is standard practice for privacy matters. The seller isn't going to sell for less than what the auction house receives from the seller's fees in addition to what the buyer pays, being an additional 10-15%.
@@DeathAngelHRA nope
news.artnet.com/market/chinese-buddhist-sculpture-garage-sale-1495570
@@DeathAngelHRA He said the sale amount included the buyer's premium. The total amount was in excess of $2 million, including the buyer premium.
wow i’m so happy for that lady! amazing!!!!!
WOW!!!……what a great return on 100 bucks 💰💰💰💰💰
Think about the luck it takes to find things like this and consider how much valuable items get thrown in the trash, destroyed or melted down for their metal. Man. All of the terrible things that could have happened to this piece but didn’t. It’s mind boggling it made it this far.
So nice to hear an Australian voice. I really wasn't expecting that at all.
WHAT?!?! How amazing!😃
Wonderful! Conservative 125,000 ? Then it turns out actually close to 2 million ! Id sell it, but NOW !!!!
In fairness to his appraisal he did say “very conservative”. Also when you get two rich Chinese oligarchs that have two million of extra dollars to spend frivolously, two million dollars is a drop in the bucket. Someone wrote a check and thought nothing of it
I have something similar. I took it to be appraised and to my surprise it was worth £2. Bummer!
Breathtaking
Maybe the person who sold this sculpture to the lady was a bodhisattva in disguised. And maybe the person who bought the sculpture from the lady was also a bodhisattva too. My god! 2 million dollars! I wonder what kind of life she's living in now. It must be amazing! A garage sale that went for 2 days; a seller who was cheerful and colorful in character. The object was destined for that lady. Reminds me of the scene from 'The Power of Now' book where the beggar was asking people for money for days only until he come across one passerby who told the beggar to look inside the box that the beggar had been sitting on for awhile.
Um... I have one of these! It may have been made from a brass shell in Thailand. But it looks a lot the same. These valuations blow my mind. Several lifetimes of worth in one object.
Think of the people that saw this and remember looking at it and thought "nah". Good on her!
You love what you do... lucky!
It's missing an arm and a hand, and still someone pays 2 million for it?
But what do you do with the statue? Look at it every day? You could find a similar piece in a museum and look at it without having to pay 2 million.
I'll never understand collectors, but I'm very happy for the lady who sold it.
Loooooove PBS
Good God, what a HOTTIE!! he needs to be on more shows!
Wonderful story
It’s beautiful, but 2 million?!? Crazzzyy. But still pretty awesome.
Wow just gorgeous 😍
Emmalee Buzzard he is! flawless skin, green eyes, dimples.
Late fourteenth century Ming Dynasty. Oh, it breaks the heart.
but it was Tang Dynasty , Dr. Jones.
@@holeymattress8128 Huh! Good point. But better safe than sorry. So I was wrong this time.
Presumed to be from the Tang Dynasty. That statue is over 2000 years old!
Starsk25 Over 2200 years old.
The Antiques Roadshow appraiser said Ming (roughly 1370-1640 AD or 380-650 years old) and the people at Sotheby’s who sold it listed it as Tang Dynasty (roughly 620-910 AD or 1110-1400 years old). Very old, but not 2000 years.
@@etshinn exactly... 🙄
Hopefully she went back and gave the original owner a nice surprise after that pay day.
Why? She bought and paid for it fairly.
Plus it was from a estate sale. The person who owned it was dead. The "dealers" came in and had plenty of opportunity to buy it before she did.
BanthemOnCraftcadia because that would be the respectful and courteous thing to do. AKA called being a good person but apparently you don’t believe in that 😂
@@barkacademies3829 you are morally confused
Extraordinary final auction price especially when Sotheby's had a lower estimate.
Bought for $100 and sold for 2 Million, what a find.
LOL her face. I thought my video was buffering but it was her brain buffering
thanks to the colorful character, must have been a special person
AMAZING
Hes very articulate
I like him
He does not mince words
He’s kind of hot
gross.
@@sharksport01 hater
"He's hot." *
Jackpot!
what are Waterhouse's qualifications to be specifically an "Asian Art" appraiser?
Go to his Linkedin page to find out.
He grew up eating at golden century in Sydney’s China town? 😳🙄
You did good guy. You knew what you were looking at and had you had more time to research I bet you would have gotten closer. No telling what the auction market will do. You knew she had something really good though and that is to be admired. I am married to the grand daughter of your contemporary, the guy that started this, and she loved your story. Especially the part about, you knew it was old...
that dudes got some really green eyes
when I heard the selling price I had to watch the examination again...wow
I think I saw her foaming @ the mouth
I'm glad she bought that👍
If I was a very rich man, I would buy these things and gift them to people of faith or museums that would really appreciate them.
"Can u show me, the shine in your Japan, the sparkle in your China..can u show me Bodhisattva, bodhisattva...."
NICE AND SMART GUY
Is this Robert Waterhouse part of the Australian Horse Racing Family???
Imagine every salesmen you met had this sort of reverence for their product... and their customer...
Can someone place the appraiser’s accent for me? If it is British, could be so kind as to identify what area specifically? His accent is very unique and nice.
Upper Australian, Melbourne best guess.
Australian accent for sure.
He is an Australian who has been to private school. So basically a somewhat upper class Aussie.
@@EchoBravo370 Thanks for the replies everyone! Cheers!
I saw him in Point Break!!!
Are there anyway that I can get an appraisal of the guanyin statue I had ? If so let me know I will send you the pictures thank you so much
Wow!
Does anyone know how to contact this collector? I want to buy, thank you all,
I feel like every time he paused while he was speaking (like 100 times it felt like), he was trying to concentratye on wrangling his eyes to keep them from floating off into space.
We. Love. Objects.
He's cute
Her reaction at 125k was replay worthy
Robert Waterhouse looks like a young Harrison Ford. He just needs the hat and whip and he could be Indiana Jones searching for the lost bodhisattva.
As Indiana Jones would say it belongs in a museum
An auction could go for whatever the market determines on the day. I'm sure if covid was hitting the us that week 125k could be closer to the result
Still its 1000 times what she paid for it
I would have kept it in the master bathroom as a soap dispenser.