New Delhi, March 4 -- A small chinaware bowl purchased for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale ended up being an atypical, fifteenth-century Chinese antique worth somewhere in the range of $300,000 and $500,000 that is going to go available to be an auction at Sotheby's.

The white bowl festooned with "cobalt blue paintings of flowers and other designs s is around 6 inches (16 centimeters) in diameter." A collectibles aficionado came across the piece and figured it very well that it could be something exceptional when perusing a yard sale in the New Haven zone a year ago, as indicated by Sotheby's.

McAteer and Yin resolute the bowl traces back to the mid-1400s during the rule of the Yongle sovereign, the third leader of the Ming Dynasty, and ...