A Ming Dynasty folding chair sold for $1.6 million.



    by TheBotMadeThis

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    1. This is the calmest, dare I say gentlest, auction I have ever seen. And I have seen more than I can remember. Not a lot persay, I just don’t remember them nor how many.

    2. 900YearsHODL-IHave on

      One day they will say the same about the “Temu Dynasty” in 5000 years.

    3. Dangerous-Store-7378 on

      This basically shows the price of something is randomly decided by how much the other person is willing to pay for it. For most of the World’s population 1.1MM is what you can easily retire with.

    4. Best I can do is 50 bucks…. I mean I gotta hang onto it and wait for a buyer. I could be waiting for years.. so do we have a deal or not?

    5. my question is, who is the owner of the chair before it got auctioned (or before it got auctioned for the first time)? is it like some random people in China just happen to found an old folding chair that they know it’s from Ming dynasty and they already see the value in the future for being auctioned or it’s a museum that auctioned it…?

    6. A fraction of that amount would be life changing for me. Fuck this shit.. 😀

    7. LightningG8921 on

      rich asshole cocktail party:

      so what historical stuff you own?

      oh a very well preserved 1000 year old chinese chair. how bout you?

    8. TheStoneArrow on

      Legal way for criminals to exchange vast sums of money for vague and dubiously valued trinkets

    9. It’s seriously disgusting that someone can drop an amount that would make some people set for life on a chair.

    10. raymondo1981 on

      So here’s me, buying lotto tickets and *dreaming* of winning a million or two. Life changing dreams. And then here’s these *other* people, that spend a million or two to buy a fecking chair, which they wont use. I just dont know sometimes.

    11. thejourneybegins42 on

      I’m all up for appreciation of history and stuff, but that’s just fuck you money for an object that will never be used.

      Imagine the amount of money these people roll in, to be able to piss away 1.6m (probably taxed too) at a whim.

    12. Electronic_Grade508 on

      The wife and I have folding chairs from the local hardware store to watch the kids soccer matches. $9 each from memory. Now that is living

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