Vase, vase or vase?

[NotAllThere]

The judge didn't accept her argument that it had been abandoned, but was quite happy that the money for it belonged to the "original" owner, who was effectively receiving stolen goods! It having been looted during the Opium Wars.

[fullyautomatix]

They are selling for such extraordinary sums because the Chinese are buying them up. These vases were smuggled out of China decades ago and its a chance for the wealthy Chinese to get them back.

[wobbegong]

Whatever, it ain't yours.

BBC News - Denbighshire family court fight over £228,000 vase

What a singularly hideous object.

I like it (wouldn't pay that much for it though).

[darmstadt]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, apparently

[OwlHoot]

Indeed. The vase is fairly appalling too.

but obviously something very unusual

It always amazes me how these dumb feckers can never seem to spot when something may be rare and/or valuable

[TimberWolf]

What a singularly hideous object.

That's not a nice way to describe Andrea Calland.

Perhaps it would go nicely with this shiny thing: BBC News - Yellow Sun-Drop diamond goes for $10.9m at Sotheby's

[zeitghost]

Whatever, it ain't yours.

BBC News - Denbighshire family court fight over £228,000 vase

What a singularly hideous object.