The British Museum has discovered that a small dish previously labelled as Korean and thought to be worth just £5, 000 is an exceedingly rare piece of Imperial Chinese ceramic, valued at as much as £15 million. The dish, an example of Ru ware from late 11th-century central China’s Northern Song Imperial Court, was bought by Sir Percival David at auction in 1928....
The sinophile collector, who died in 1964, believed it to be Ru ware but was unable to prove it definitively. Sometime in the 1970s
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2021-10-20 00:00:00.0