A valuable vase from the Qianlong era is priced at $78,000.

The owner was utterly surprised when the $13 vase purchased at a flea market turned out to be a valuable antique from the Qianlong era, worth 6,000 times its original value.

This precious vase was made during the Qianlong era. Photo: Sun Pictures.

A man in England bought an antique vase.13 cm tall at a flea marketfor $13Because the item looked quite interesting, they didn't realize they had just gotten a great deal, according to The Sun.

The man who remains anonymousHe came from Hampshire, England thenShe put the vase up for sale on eBay and received an offer to buy it for $12,500.Suspecting this was a special jar, heThey decided to withdraw the listing and take the vase to Woolley & Wallis auction house in Salisbury, Wilts. There, experts valued the vase at $37,400, and it reached $78,000 at yesterday's auction.

John Axford, head of Asian art at the auction house, identified the vase as being coated with a type of glaze reserved for the imperial court and dating it to at least 220 years old.

The vase bears a four-character seal of Qianlong, the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty, and was crafted by imperial artisans between approximately 1736 and 1795. The vase comes with an octagonal enamel base measuring 7.6 cm in height.

According to VNE