GUEST: I lived next door to the little lady in Florida. She was a schoolteacher and a very refined little lady. Her father was a tailor in, um, Muskegon, Michigan, and during the Depression, he lost it all. She was married, they kindly depended on me. Her uncle took her picture and had this made, and this was one of the pieces that they gave me.
APPRAISER: We see a lot of pieces of china painting here at the ROADSHOW, and this is what that is, china painting being a craft that was very popular, uh, starting in the 1890s, and going on through to the '30s. And you almost never see them with a portrait. This would have been probably a little candy jar. If you found this in a, in a retail store, somebody who did not know this child may ask somewhere between $500 and $600. For the family, for people who knew her, of course, this is absolutely priceless.
GUEST: Yes, it's priceless, uh-huh.
