French family's attic vase sells for €16.18 million at Sotheby's auction

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A French family discovered an 18th-century Chinese porcelain vase in their attic. They brought the vase, packed in a shoebox, to Sotheby's auction house in Paris in 2018. Experts authenticated it as a rare imperial piece made for China's Qianlong Emperor. The vase sold for €16.18 million, which was over 23 times its pre-sale estimate.

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