{"id":975,"date":"2026-04-10T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/?p=975"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:39:50","slug":"pair-of-chinese-vases-to-be-sold-80-years-after-being-bought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Chinese vases to be sold 80 years after being bought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/resources\/images\/20768814\/?x=0&amp;y=145&amp;w=1200&amp;h=966\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n  The vases, expected to fetch up to \u00a31,000, are being sold by Banbury auctioneers Holloways on April 15.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They were bought in 1947 by Leonard Barker at a country house auction in Oxford, and have remained in the family ever since.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Eileen Hancock, Mr Barker\u2019s daughter, said: &#8220;I\u2019m not sure why he bought them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He wasn\u2019t a collector or dealer, and I think he just liked them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I don\u2019t know what he paid for them but, knowing my dad, he would have got them for a good price.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Hancock, 92, kept the vases in her Chipping Norton home after her mother Edith passed away in 1994.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The vases, believed to date from around 1900, stand almost half a metre tall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: &#8220;I don\u2019t know how much longer I\u2019ve got left and I don\u2019t want them to get chucked away or lost.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I would prefer them to go to someone who can cherish them as I have done.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jasper Marsh, director at Holloways, said: &#8220;My job is all about memories \u2013 making new ones and remembering old ones.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;That wonderful 1940s photo of Eileen\u2019s family with her brother Ronnie cradling the vase brings it to life like nothing else.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We are delighted and proud to be selling the vases and sending them on their next chapter.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>#Pair #Chinese #vases #sold #years #bought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vases, expected to fetch up to \u00a31,000, are being sold by Banbury auctioneers Holloways on April 15. They were bought in 1947 by Leonard Barker at a country house&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}