Yet it went on to become the most expensive piece of Chinese porcelain ... 16in-tall vase, featuring a fish motif on the front and gold banding, was made for the Chinese emperor Qianlong who ...

APPRAISER: It's porcelain ... 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. APPRAISER: And I knew that from the ...

It dates back to China’s Qianlong era ... often to buyers from all over the world. The vase was listed alongside a wide variety of Chinese porcelain, plates, jade sculptures, jewellery and ...

On one occasion, a working-class couple brought in a vase for appraisal on the show, only to be told by the expert that their 16-inch tall porcelain ... The Qianlong Vase, likely looted by British ...