An amateur antiques collector who took a 100-year-old Japanese vase to be assessed by BBC experts wiped £2,000 off its value - in an accidental knock while packing it up for the programme.

Her most expensive antique find is a ceramic cosmetics box from the Five Dynasties Period, valued at around $300,000. Compare that with a Qing dynasty vase that sold for $68 million at a London ...

Expensive China A $31 million scroll, an $86 million vase, and other items from the Chinese antiques boom.