32 million dollar for a 8cm wide porcelain cup

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Says the great monopolised looter and crminal, the state.

No, says a person interested in history that sees beauty in the craft of our ancestors, the proof that they were able to manually produce things as accurately as a modern CNC machine, the story behind it and the simple romantic idea that perhaps it belonged to a direct ancestor of mine.

A person like me, that believes that life has a little more to offer than just live until you die.
Now leave artifacts alone because I will not tolerate the destruction of a work of art just because you yourself believe that the only value to an object is the weight of the material.

So no, the state didn't say that, I said it belongs in a museum