But at an auction value, you're looking at probably 1500 to 2,500.

- Wow.

- Yeah.

- Great.

(upbeat music) - Welcome.

If you could tell me a little bit about this piece.

- Well, my grandfather got it from New York.

He was from New York City and married a small town, Southern Virginia girl, and he liked to go to New York to shop for things, and he found this.

And I don't really know much about it.

I've used it in my living room, and I just understand that the more faces that are on it, maybe the more expensive.

- Okay.

Well, it is.

It's from Japan.

It's a Japanese, and can I hold it?

It's a Japanese satsuma plate.

And this is a very large size.

We call it charger.

And it was meant to be very decorative.

And on the back, sometimes you see that it would be signed.

This one is not signed, but it has this beautiful crackle to the satsuma porcelain.

On the front, satsuma is known for this elaborate detail and lots of like raised gilding, and it makes it very fun.

In the center, you have, her name is Kannon in Japanese.

It's the Buddhism of compassion.

She holds this lotus blossom and an umbrella that is a symbol of the Buddha.

The Lotus blossom shows her compassion.

She has her hand in a welcoming gesture and she's seated, surrounded by these sages or mortals, we call them interchangeably.

And then you have this elaborate decoration around, and these look like they're supposed to mimic cranes with their wings up.

So very regal looking, almost in an art deco style, because that is the period that this would've been made.

So this would've been, probably Taisho period or early Showa, so we're looking at like the 1930s, 1940s, which would be about the same period he would've been buying, I'm guessing.

- Absolutely.

- These large blossoms are penny blossoms, and again, a very favored flower in Asian art.

The value I would put on, if you saw this at auction, I would say, between 1000 to 1500.

- [Attendee] Well, thank you.

- Yes, it's really lovely.

If it had a signature in the back, it would raise its value, 'cause then we would be able to trace the, and maybe a little bit older, but it is really stunning and the condition is excellent.

- Well, thank you.

- Tell us a little bit about what you brought in today.

- Okay, this is part of a matching pair of table lamps.

My mom and dad had it in their bedroom for ages.

We've had it in storage and it's held up remarkably well.

And since we're in the smaller house, we really don't need it and we can't use it at this point 'cause we have our own lamps.

So we figured we'd wanna see what the value of it might be.

- Okay.

It's a really lovely piece.

It's a white porcelain with a nice sort of glossy glaze to it.

It is signed underneath here, Ben Rose 1960, and then it has an impressed Italy mark on the bottom.

So it's obviously made in Italy.

There is this label on here, which is a little faded that also says, made in Italy, too.

So it's a nice piece of Italian porcelain.

The style, it's a style that we sometimes see called Rococo, which the Italians became, I think, famous for, as well as the French, which is a little bit more elaborate scrolling motifs, which we see here, more decorative floral designs here.

From what I'm seeing based on the signature here, 1960, since this does come with the shade, and I would guess that the shade is original to the piece, and that you have a pair, value wise, we've seen them sell as high as 200.

It's a good value still for Italian porcelain.

So for the pair, 200.

- Okay, well thank you very much.

(upbeat music) - Hi, Becky.

How are you doing today?

- Oh, great.

- So tell us what brought you in today?

- Well, actually my son and his wife, Tony and Julie, gave me this trip to, as a birthday gift.

So I'm here and I brought a piece of jewelry that my son said to me, are you taking that piece that you paid a quarter four?

And I thought, well, maybe I should.

So here we are.

- Well, I think your son had great instincts to tell you that today.

Now, tell us a little bit about the story behind how you acquired the piece.

- I just stopped in a rural area at an attic sale, and I found this piece there, and I didn't have my glasses with me, so I wasn't exactly sure.

I couldn't read it until I got in the car, and it said 14 karat gold.

That was after I'd paid a quarter for it.

So I knew that I had something when it said 14 karat at gold, but I wasn't exactly sure what, so I brought it to you.

- Well, I'm glad that you did.

Because you are correct, it is 14 karat gold, and it is made with oval rope beads that are intertwined with turquoise and pearl strands.

This piece was made approximately in the 1950s, and you were looking at an auction value between three and $5,000.

- Wow.

- Quarter was well spent.

- Wow, that was well spent.

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