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<p>[QUOTE="Sassy, post: 317129, member: 5547"]Thank you all so much! I am actually having great difficulty finding anyone to appraise or buy this piece. I am at a loss. I have contacted Christie's, Sothebys and what feels like a hundred other places, and have had only a couple responses. Christies and Sothebys do not respond to auction requests if the piece is not worth over 5k, which clearly this one isn't, since they have not bothered to respond. I have not tried Swanns though so that will be my project for tomorrow evening after work. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> Thank you for that suggestion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was wrong in my dating, (no surprise there, I am a complete amateur) I now believe that it is an 12-13th century stonepaste or fritware moldedware piece from Iran, thanks to a very knowledgeable person who responded to one of my inquiries. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have had a bit of a change of circumstance and I am now very interested in selling but I am absolutely not sure of where to turn. I have contacted a great deal of auction houses AND museums and collectors, and have had only one response (from the kind lady telling me it is almost certainly 12th-13th century).</p><p><br /></p><p>I am sending this post out into the great wide webs to see if anyone here has any idea where I go from here. My husband has suggested we eBay it but that seems a silly place to sell something so unique. And I have no idea what price point I would even start an auction at! It is hard to know if I am looking at a few hundred dollars or a few thousand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sassy, post: 317129, member: 5547"]Thank you all so much! I am actually having great difficulty finding anyone to appraise or buy this piece. I am at a loss. I have contacted Christie's, Sothebys and what feels like a hundred other places, and have had only a couple responses. Christies and Sothebys do not respond to auction requests if the piece is not worth over 5k, which clearly this one isn't, since they have not bothered to respond. I have not tried Swanns though so that will be my project for tomorrow evening after work. :) Thank you for that suggestion. I was wrong in my dating, (no surprise there, I am a complete amateur) I now believe that it is an 12-13th century stonepaste or fritware moldedware piece from Iran, thanks to a very knowledgeable person who responded to one of my inquiries. I have had a bit of a change of circumstance and I am now very interested in selling but I am absolutely not sure of where to turn. I have contacted a great deal of auction houses AND museums and collectors, and have had only one response (from the kind lady telling me it is almost certainly 12th-13th century). I am sending this post out into the great wide webs to see if anyone here has any idea where I go from here. My husband has suggested we eBay it but that seems a silly place to sell something so unique. And I have no idea what price point I would even start an auction at! It is hard to know if I am looking at a few hundred dollars or a few thousand.[/QUOTE]
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