They bought a bowl for $3 and sold it for $2.2 million

A family in New York was spending 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" and a bowl of scraping and fell in love with it, and ended up paying 3 dollars for the attractive white bowl,

It remained in their home for years, until at some point the family became curious about the origin of the vessel so they decided to evaluate it.

After bringing it to a ceramics store, they were shocked to learn that the bowl was actually 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".

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.

" Between $200,000 and $300,000, their fortunes eventually jumped to much higher numbers when the plate was sold to an art dealer, for a staggering $2,225,000.

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