Doucai dish destroys its estimate
Schloß Ahlden (25% buyer’s premium) near Hanover was presumably expecting more than the modest estimate of €500 for an 18th century Chinese doucai dish (diameter 8in/21cm) that was to become one of the top lots of a recent auction.
After all, the in-house experts compared it to a doucai dish of identical size which was sold by So…