Chinese Ming-era box bought for £19 sells for £288,000 at auction
A 15th-century Chinese enamel box sold for £288,000 at a Dreweatts auction. The box had been purchased for only £19 in 1946 by Major Edward Copleston Radcliffe. It was later rediscovered, unnoticed, in a family attic. Auction house experts confirmed its significance as a rare Xuande-marked pomegranate box.
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