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October 9, 2008
3 Million Pound Pitcher
How did I miss this auction story the other day?
A 1,000-year-old carved rock crystal ewer, one of only seven known surviving examples, fetched 3.2 million pounds at auction on Tuesday, Christie's said.The ewer is the same one that came up for auction in Britain in January this year, when it was catalogued as a 19th century French claret jug and valued at 100-200 pounds.
There's a picture at the link.
Of course, when pitchers are expensive and made of rock crystal, pitchers are ewers - kind of like jugs are vases when they're Greek. And, please, in the words of Miss Manners, it's a vahz when it's filled with dahzies.
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Posted by CrankyProfessor at October 9, 2008 11:39 AM