Antiques Roadshow’s gobsmacked guest exclaims ‘Oh my Heavens’ at five-figure rice bowl
An Antiques Roadshow guest's jaw dropped when she discovered the true value of her late husband's rice bowl and dish.
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An Antiques Roadshow guest was struggling for words as her rice bowl and dish turned out to be worth a small fortune.
The PBS series met with a pensioner who was curious to know how much her petite rice bowl and dish were and so expert Lark E Mason was on hand to help.
Giving some background information, the guest said: “It belonged to my mother-in-law and my father-in-law. My father-in-law was the first consul general for the new country of the Republic of Korea in New York City.
“I don’t know how it came into their possession but they gave it to my husband and when he died he left it to me.
“My best guess is that it’s a small white jade rice bowl with plate or saucer.”
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It was at this point that Mason revealed that the rice bowl and the dish were completely “unrelated” to one another.
“Oh really? For as long as I’ve had them, they’ve always been together”, she responded.
He firstly pointed out the difference in colours and then the fact that the rice bowl moves too easily when its sat upon the dish.
Referring to the dish, he said: “One of the other features about this which is really interesting, the dish, is the shape of the wall, the edge.
“You notice it’s got a very wide centre section that’s flat and then it curves up.
“This shape is a distinctive Chinese shape. When I first saw this, my supposition was that it may have well been something from the 18th Century, because this particular shape was a shape that was favoured in the 18th Century in China and into the early 19th Century.”
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He continued: “When I took it down and I looked at it, the sides are very thin, which I think is indicative of a slightly later period in time.
“And I looked at the underside and you can see this kind of low foot on the edge and there’s not a mark here and often on the 18th Century ones you find a mark.
“And the very white colour of this is indicative of a type of quality that would have been only available to the very wealthiest of people.
“That’s what helps us to understand the time frame of when this was made and the same sort of process I use for the glass bowl.
“So you can see here it’s a little bowl with a cover and this shape is also a shape you find from the late 18th Century and forward. So I suspect that this is actually 20th Century also.”
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When asked how much the guest thought her items were worth, she predicted $1,000.
He summarised: “I think it’s worth a bit more than that.
“I believe that the two objects together are worth $15,000 to $25,000.”
Upon hearing the appraisal, the guest’s jaw dropped before covering her mouth with her palm.
She stated: “Oh my Heavens. Oh my Heavens”, before taking a pause and adding: “That is stunning.”
Antiques Roadshow is available to watch on PBS.
