From the weekend market in a New York neighborhood

A family buys a bowl for $3 and sells it for $2.2 million

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A family in New York was having a fun family day browsing the yard sales, a makeshift market held on weekends between neighborhoods in the city.

The family, according to the "Busnic" website, was searching in the kitchen clothing department, when they found this "bowl" (a porcelain bowl) and fell in love with it, and ended up paying three dollars for the attractive white bowl, and it stayed in their home for years until the family felt at some point Curious about the origin of the bowl so they decided to evaluate it.

After bringing it to a ceramics store, they were shocked to learn that the bowl was more than 1,000 years old, and that it was made during the Song Dynasty of China, when the pottery work was in common use called Dingware.

In describing the bowl, Sotheby's notes "the smoothness of the pottery, the beauty of the glaze, the beautiful lotus mark engraved on the inside, and the decoration almost identical to another piece on display in the British Museum in London. It is a beautiful masterpiece."

The family, whose identity has not been announced, received a valuation between $200,000 and $300,000, but their fortunes eventually jumped to much higher numbers when the plate was sold to an art dealer for a staggering $2,225,000 million.

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