Antiques Roadshow - worth a million or is it a fake?

this would be around the Han Dynasty that's nice like the terracotta figures are a very unusual thing where did you find it and unfortunately it wasn't in my family I found it some in a flea market in southeast London a few years ago on this Sunday afternoon okay yeah did they tell you what it was well it was really unlikely it was kind of amongst those of just house clearance things and the guy didn't really seem very interested in it and um I bet he just finished a part-time archaeology course and why I was just really intrigued by it right I knew it because it had um kind of Sandhya I presumed it was some type of funeral offering ah yes indeed these were grave Goods almost invariably they were buried and having been dug up you get it is in Co station and you get all this wonderful colour building up here is it cause this is this is cast bronze and the copper is coming through and that's because of acid attacked by the soil the thing that worries me mm-hmm is that this would normally be what we call a B disc bi mm-hmm which I she has a hole in the middle yeah I've seen that you've seen yes yeah yeah were they buried under the elbows and above the head they were all over the place yeah and nobody there weren't pimples on you nobody's any idea what they were yeah it was supposed to be discern a discerning sort of the future yes yeah I read somewhere when I was researching it the really rich people had like shrouds of date of the hide now this would have been buried there somebody here with serious Oh serious highly important officiate a priest priest murmur peace for the highly important important of official would have this now how much did you pay first well he was he wanted like fifty pounds and I had no money and I've asked him down to 30 quid okay now I'm gonna put you out of your misery how old is it a couple of years hey Genting are you taking I'm not oh no I'm so I'm really honest but hang on I haven't finished it I haven't finished it my life's over I thought no it's not it's not okay listen we are looking to the future oh this your class of where this class of where is coming from China they are passing it they're carving it because they still can afford the skilled craftsmen to do it it's a fantastic no I don't exact it's a fantastic that a work this is my prediction yeah for the future now you will know normally here an expert as so called predicting that a forgery is something to buy ha ha if you can find that energy quid go out and buy them your children are you thank you for being so great no I love it there are always people for 30 quid daddies where are the balls I would always envisioned I thought it's like 2400 years old listen if this was real it would be worth close on a million pounds oh I love it thank you for letting me know

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Length: 3min 34sec (214 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 11 2015