Tang Dynasty Marble Lion Antiques Roadshow

A lady brought her antique to get appraised at the antiques roadshow in albuquerque new mexico.

Tang dynasty marble lion antiques roadshow.

Tang dynasty marble lion season 21 episode 19 wnmu skip to main content. Featured 10 03 2019 in feels. Tang dynasty marble lion from vintage albuquerque. Funding for antiques roadshow is provided by liberty mutual insurance ancestry and consumer cellular.

Tang dynasty marble lion vintage albuquerque preview youtube. Her grandparents traveled to china many years ago and brought back an extremely heavy marble statue. A woman brings in a marble lion sculpture from the tang dynasty and the appraiser is overcome by what he s looking at. Antiques roadshow appraisal.

When a woman brought a marble lion statue to the show s location she knew a little bit of history about the piece. She didn t have any expectations. Mason s antiques roadshow appraisal of this tang dynasty marble lion from greatest finds. The appraisers at antiques roadshow have seen some pretty rare treasures over the years but it s not often that one s so spectacular it leaves them all choked up.

A tang dynasty large and rare white marble carving of a bodhisattva previously held in the cleveland museum of art also reached 740 000 estimate 600 800 000. The statue was passed down to her mother and then she inherited it. Appraisers on hand at the taping of the antiques roadshow television program were overwhelmed when a new mexico woman brought in a rare chinese marble figure. The values given by the experts on antiques roadshow are considered verbal.

Antiques roadshow appraiser is overcome by emotion when he sees a marble lion from the tang dynasty. Woman brings in lion statue so rare that appraiser gets emotional in assessment. The white marble chinese lion was carved between 618 and 907 a d. Additional funding is.

Lion statue brings antiques road show expert to tears. Lark mason senior vice president of sotheby s appraised the item at 250 000 and said he was almost speechless when confronted with the item.