GUEST: My husband had two aunts that had enough money to purchase nice art.
APPRAISER: Let's deal with the condition, first of all.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: There are pieces missing. You actually broke a little piece off coming in today.
GUEST: I did, I did do that.
APPRAISER: This is an extremely fragile piece. It does have an interesting mark. It says "Paris 1900" on the bottom. "Amphora, Austria," Turn-Teplitz is a region where a lot of this type of pottery was made. There were several companies there that generically referred to as Amphora, this one being one of the Stellmacher companies.
GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: This is a cast piece. It's made out of porcelain. I think a price at auction would be $7,000 to $9,000. One of the best things that Amphora ever made.
GUEST: Wow. Wow.
APPRAISER: That's what I said when I saw it.
GUEST: (laughing): Okay, yeah, wow.
APPRAISER: Even with the nick or two, he's a good looker.