Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry ... And there's a special kind of vase that's called a rouleau vase that was made in China, because this is Chinese. GUEST: Oh.

The 42-year-old said he was going to bring the vase, worth about S$315,280, to Hong Kong to have it valued, but instead ...

A prized Chinese vase which dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as merely a 'clever ... Yet it went on to become the most expensive piece of Chinese porcelain ever to come on to the market ...