UK collector paid $15 for broken teapot; it later sold for $575,00
A broken teapot bought for £15 at a 2016 auction was identified as a rare piece made by John Bartlam in South Carolina in the 1760s. It later sold for £460,000 at auction, reaching £575,000 with the buyer’s premium, and was acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In 2016, a UK collector purchased a broken, lidless teapot at an auction for £15. Little did they know that the piece would later be identified as one of the rarest early American porcelain teapots. The teapot was eventually sold for £575,000 after it was discovered to be a piece made by John Bartlam, a Staffordshire potter who established a pottery business in South Carolina in the 1760s.
Written by urgent.news from Times of India's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
