When antiques appraiser Jeremy Rye was invited to a house in Shropshire, England, to look at an English dessert service, little did he know that he would spot an Imperial Chinese vase and cover worth £500,000. The vase, which measures almost 50cm high, had spent most of the last 30 years unrecognized on the floor of a dining room by a window. The extraordinary large and elegant Doucai ‘Lotus and Bats’ baluster-shaped jar and cover, dating from the Qianlong Period (1736-95) is one of the most ...
