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vase 100 year old Japanese chip suffers the most expensive in history Antiques Roadshow.
Alan Bridges, 75, bought the dirty pot to a car boot sale last year for only 3 to 1 price includes the plant inside.
Although porcelain lovers knew he had a good deal, he had no idea of its real value, until it turns to be rated on the Antiques Roadshow.
Lars Tharp, one of the Antiques Roadshow of the oldest experts said it was worth 2000 to gasps of spectators but was given the bad news that, without the chip, the incense burner with three legs was a double value.
On the show, which aired last night, M. Bridges tried to put a brave face on the consequences of its blunders.
It would have been helpful to have been able to sell it for the whole of 4000 and not 2000, he said.
I use the sale of these items to add to a fund to put my four grandchildren to college but he'll find another there, I have a beautiful home and a wonderful family and that's what's important .
M. Bridges is a retired businessman who lives near Colchester, Essex, and was collecting china for 45 years, he spotted the vase last year at a sale of local car boot.
He said a lady had just pulled up in a van and was put odds on the tables.
She laid it on the floor under a table but I crouched down and, despite a still dead plant, I realized instantly that it was a rarity.
Before I could reach it, another lady looked But as she moved along, I took it back up.
She said: Oh, I am always looking at what I say: No, it is in my hand and I quickly asked the seller, How much do you want for it she said, three books I said, I'll have it and that was that.
M. Bridges has decided to take the vase and several oriental objects, Antiques Roadshow during her visit layer remains impressive Marney, Essex, in May.
However, in his anxiety to pack properly, M. Bridges hit it too heavily and a small enamel fragment came away.
The next day, M. Tharp, a leading expert of the show, took him as one of the items to be discussed.
M. Tharp has described as very unique, but when he noticed the chip, the evaluation has dropped dramatically.
M. Tharp said that is probably the most expensive chip we have ever shown the Antiques Roadshow.
M. Bridges, who has three children, said he handled as if it were love he Lars told me that throughout his career he has never seen anything like that.
He said that it was 4000, but as he said, that was not the chip.
He said he had damaged the vessel while packing to take the Roadshow.
The vase has two fish, a traditional symbol in Japanese culture, which are half out of the water.
However, the vase glass on porcelain, which is common, but less common effect is that the glass is textured to give a call to the touch, while the finishes are usually left smooth.
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