A glass vase – bottle – caught the attention of a woman walking through a store who stopped to look through the disorderly piles of old kitchen utensils and canning jars. She liked it so much that she bought it and, like a genie lamp, it rewarded her with thousands of dollars.

He bought the vase for less than $4. The $3.99 was paid at a Goodwill store, People reported. Then Jessica Vincent heard that the vase had its story and in the end it turned out for the woman, who is a horse trainer, as if she had won a big lottery prize.

The woman from Virginia, United States, hoped that even though it was expensive, she planned to buy it.

The fine origin of the bottle

With the bottle, happiness smiled at Jessica. The Murano vase turned out to be an original piece “made by Italian glass designer Carlo Scarpa.” This artist made the vase in the 1940s and was part of a series called “Pennellate”.

According to People, he got all this information because, when he got home, happy with his purchase, he showed it off on Facebook. She had previously indicated that Murano and Italy were stamped on the bottom of the vase.

On Facebook, he “accepted the suggestion to join a private Murano Glass group.” There he learned it was designed by Scarpa, who died in 1979, People reported.

To the auction

A person on Facebook told him how rare the piece was. “Every collector would love to have that, but most people can’t afford it,” he told her. While talking to the Facebook community, he saw the idea of ​​auctioning it.

She was referred to Richard Wright, president of Wright Auction House in Chicago, and contacted him by email, People reported. He saw more clearly the possibility of auctioning it and confided that he would have liked to keep the vase, but “he needed the money.”

At an auction on December 15, 2023, the bottle, purchased for less than $4, “sold for a hammer price of $85,000. With the buyer’s premium, the total price came to $107,100. Of this, Vincent earned approximately $83,000,” People explained.

“I feel like I saved the vase and the vase saved me,” she said.

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The horse trainer remembers that when she saw it in the store, she noticed “that it had beautiful iridescence.” “As I got closer, I knew he was coming to my house.”

However, one sentence was decisive: “Every collector would like to have that.”

With the money he gets from auctioning the famous vase, he will make improvements to his house. Today, Vincent thinks, “It made sense to bring it back to the art world.”

(JO)