Chinese Porcelain at a UK Country Auction | My £700 Winning Bid

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I look back at five Chinese porcelain lots from a country-house contents sale at Duke’s in the UK, including a famille rose sweetmeat set that I won with a £700 bid.

I didn’t inspect these pieces in person before the sale. My research was based on the auction photographs, condition information and historical sale records. This video follows how I used those references to decide what to bid—and when to stop.

CeraScope is the iPhone app I developed for researching Chinese ceramics. I demonstrate the process from selecting photographs and checking condition details to entering the auction house’s 19 cm measurement, reviewing the app’s estimate and comparing past auction results before setting a bidding limit.

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The five lots include an Eight Immortals blue-and-white bowl, a hexagonal wucai vase decorated with ladies, a Red Cliff inscribed bowl, a Longquan tripod censer and the famille rose sweetmeat set.

A note on the figures: £700 was the winning bid, or hammer price, before buyer’s premium and any other charges. CeraScope shows an auction price guide of about US$2,207 for the sweetmeat set. This is a research reference, not a resale result or a guaranteed value. Period attributions follow the auction catalogue and are not independently authenticated in this video.

Which of these five lots would you have researched further, and what would you want to check before bidding?

CHAPTERS
00:00 UK Country Auction Finds
01:28 Kangxi Eight Immortals Bowl
05:10 Kangxi Wucai Vase
06:20 Kangxi Red Cliff Bowl
07:19 Ming Longquan Tripod Censer
09:00 Qianlong Sweetmeat Set
10:20 Research Before You Bid

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This English edition uses an AI-generated version of my own voice and AI-assisted lip-sync.

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