A man knocked off 12,000 from the value of a 100-year-old Japanese vase when he chipped it while packing it up to take to the Antiques Roadshow. Alan Bridges, 75, from Colchester, had bought the vase in question for just 3 from a car boot sale. Hearing that the popular BBC show was being filmed ...

A VASE found in a house-clearance in London has been sold for 53m, thought to be a record for any Chinese artwork. The 18th Century Qianlong porcelain piece had been estimated to fetch up to 1.2m for the brother and sister who inherited it. The sister had to go out of the room and have a breath of ...

THE 13-inch high ornament with its distinctive pharaoh headdress was originally designed to hold the internal organs of the dead as part of the mummification process. The canopic jar, complete with cover, was left outside in a garden in north Dorset until its owner decided to have it ...