Priceless Quing Dynasty Vases

Quing Dynasty Vases are priceless, at a recent Sotheby Auction Chinese businesswoman Alice Cheng paid a record high price of US$5.32 million to buy a peach-patterned vase made in the Yongzheng period (1723-1735), thus setting a new auction record for porcelain from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

The below exquisite pieces are from the same Qing Dynasty period.





The Fitzwilliam Museum in the university city of Cambridge had similar priceless vases sitting at the Windowsill for display.

A visitor tripped on his untied shoelaces and ended shattering those priceless vases. Now the museum is buying some super glue and is working on sticking the vases together.

Maybe the Museum should implement a you break it, you buy it policy. Three vases at a going price of $5 million each, works out to be $15 million, maybe the shoelace tripper can pay with his credit card.

More about this from Yahoo! News and from the BBC and USA Today.