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  "id": 13098224,
  "title": "French family found vase in attic; it later sold for $16.18 million",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/french-family-found-vase-in-attic-it-later-sold-for-16-18-million",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-09T10:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/a-french-family-found-an-18th-century-chinese-vase-forgotten-in-an-attic-and-carried-it-to-sothebys-in-a-shoebox-after-experts-linked-it-to-the-qianlong-court-it-sold-for-16-18-million/articleshow/134825738.cms"
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  "summary": "An 18th-century Chinese porcelain vase, forgotten in a French family's attic, sold for €16.18 million at Sotheby’s Paris in 2018. The family brought it to the auction house in a shoebox, unaware of its value. Experts identified it as a rare imperial vase made for the Qianlong Emperor, and it sold for over 23 times its estimated value.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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