A vase initially dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as a clever fake fetched an eye-watering £53million after languishing in an attic for four decades. The BBC's 1970s antiques game show 'Going ...

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.

The Qianlong-dynasty vase has had a chequered history from imperial looting to BBC cameos (Picture: PA) The show originally ran from 1965 to 1977 (Picture: BBC) According to experts at the time ...

plain porcelains from the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, to the palace workshops in Beijing, where court painters applied the polychrome enamel decoration. The Qianlong reign mark on ...

The Qianlong Vase, likely looted by British and French soldiers from a Peking imperial palace during the Second Opium War, was initially estimated to fetch £1million. However, as bidding ...