The Meiji vase sold for $110,000 (£85,000) at Clars Auction Gallery in California.
A monumental cloisonné vase – the previously missing element to a triptych made for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago – sold for $110,000 (£85,000) in California.
The 8ft (2.44m) high Meiji vase had been deemed lost for over a century. It had however, been quietly residing in the main dining room at one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s oldest restaurants, Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley.