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Old chest once bought for $ 150 and has long stood as a stand under the TV, turned out to be the long-lost Japanese antique larem.




Laminated rarity, made of cedar wood and covered with gold-painted, caught the eye of the auctioneer when the daughter of the late owner of the trunk offered him a drink of sherry from "Papa's bar." Cache was made in 1640, the year and initially belonged to the chief minister of France - Cardinal Mazarin, then the British poet William Beckford, and then went on the hands of businessmen, including Welsh mine owner Sir Clifford Cory.



Chest disappeared from the museum staff after Cory's death in 1941, the year. They have long and unsuccessfully tried to find a valuable artifact. As it turned out just now, it was bought by an engineer who lives in South Kensington. He bought a chest in 1970 from an unknown doctor-Pole. The man took it with him when he moved to France and died without knowing what kind of rarity, he used all his life as a TV stand.

After the death of the engineer, his 50-year-old daughter contacted the auctioneer Phillip Rollakom to the assessed property left by his old father. Son Rollaka Aymeric, who works with him in the same company, told the tabloid The Sun, that at first it seemed that a certain value are only Flemish clock, which could sell for several thousand dollars.



"Then the woman offered her father sherry. She went to the big box in the corner of the room, turned off, the TV stand on it, and put it on the floor. Then she opened a chest full of alcohol, and my father could not believe his eyes. He asked her what it was. She said that her dad is the bar where she and her brother were hiding when we played hide and seek, "- said Aymeric.



Auctioneer immediately got in touch with his son and said that he had discovered something incredible. Aymeric quickly scored to search the Internet for information about the chest, pointing out what he looks like. So they know that this is the most sought after by collectors Japanese antiques. "The family of the former owners of the chest unspeakably happy. No joke, he left the auction for nearly $ 10 million ", - said Aymeric Rollak.

Rarity was bought at auction by the National Museum of Amsterdam. Curator of the Department of East Asian Art Menno Fitski noticed that the trunk is the jewel in their collection, and it is worth every penny that is paid for it.

Source: fedpost.ru