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The price was more than 20 times the estimate of 500,000 euros to 700,000 euros auctioneers Sotheby’s had put on the item. It was the highest price reached for a single item sold by Sotheby’s in France.

這價格是蘇富比拍賣行先前對此物品所估50至70萬歐元的20多倍，創蘇富比在法國之單一物件最高售價。

The vase spent some of its life stashed in an attic with other items that formed part of an inheritance. A French family retrieved the vase and brought it to the auctioneer.

這只花瓶和其他做為遺產一部分的其他物品，有部分歲月共同深藏於一處閣樓中。法國一戶人家讓這只花瓶重見天日，把它帶去給拍賣行。

“The seller took the train, then the metro and walked on foot through the doors of Sotheby’s and into my office with the vase in a shoebox protected by newspaper,” Sotheby’s Asian arts expert Olivier Valmier told Reuters.

蘇富比亞洲藝術專家奧利維耶．瓦勒米耶告訴路透，「賣家搭火車、轉地鐵、穿過蘇富比重重大門，然後和鞋盒中以報紙保護著的花瓶一起進來我的辦公室。」

“When she put the box on my desk and we opened it we were all stunned by the beauty of the piece.”

「當她把盒子放上我的桌子，我們打開它時，全被這件作品的美麗所震懾。」

The 30 cm, bulb-shaped vase, painted in delicate shades of green, blue, yellow and purple, was described as an exceptionally well-preserved porcelain vessel made for an emperor of the Qing dynasty. (Reuters)

這只30公分高的燈泡狀花瓶，以淡雅的綠、藍、黃、紫色調上色，據形容是為清朝一位皇帝而製且精心保存的瓷器。（路透）

英倫翻譯社轉自https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1338794