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 ...

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 ...