The world's most expensive privately owned vases originally come from China. They are all imperial porcelains, made by royal potteries for the court of an emperor. Most pieces date back to the ...

In the 1970s, a working-class British couple brought the vase to 'Going for a Song', where it was evaluated as a fake by an expert.

Though a great number of bronze and iron pagodas were built following the Song Dynasty, not many have been preserved. No more than a few dozens bronze or iron pagodas exist today in the whole country.