APPRAISER: So when did you acquire this piece?
GUEST: About ten years ago.
APPRAISER: Okay, and what do you know about it?
GUEST: Nothing.
APPRAISER: Nothing.
GUEST: Nothing.
APPRAISER: Okay. Um, it's, it's large and very impressive. It's a Chinese rose medallion bowl, um, decorated for the West. So the American market, the English market. Um, there's typical Chinese motifs to the interior. There's long-tailed birds to the interior. There's ladies and figures at leisure. It's what the Chinese thought the Americans thought of the Chinese. Um, the bowl is probably 1820, probably out of Canton. It would have gone to the West. And these mounts, the brass mounts, are a later addition-- it's probably 1920s. So it was a simple bowl, and then it became a mounted jardinière. That's added value to the piece. Um, and as an insurance value, I would put $3,000 on it.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: But it's a lovely bowl.
GUEST: Oh, thank you.
