A large Han dynasty horse potted in gray earthenware with red cold-painted pigment, to be sold with an Oxford authentication test certificate, priced at £3,250. Photo Paul Burnett
LONDON – The latest Star Wars blockbuster and all the excitement around it is all very well, but as collectors of antiques, we prefer to look back in time, rather than what awaits future generations in galaxies far far away.
Collectors of antiquities look back farther than anyone and they have the advantage over most of us: The objects they search out might well be thousands of years old, but that doesn’t always mean they cost the earth.
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