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Sale year: 2019 Sale price: $1.98 million Price today: $2.2 million This blue and red vase was made in the royal potteries for the Yongzheng Emperor during the 18th-century Quin Dynasty.

So there’s a lot of blue in it, and there’s yellow and pops of orange and then green and black and these really midnight kind of purples.” They started by choosing a vase. Despite having a ...