A Chinese vase expected to fetch €1,500-€2,000 (around $1,470-$1,960) at auction has sold for more than €9 million ($8.8 million) after a bidding war between collectors.

The vase, which was described as "quite ordinary" by the Osenat auction house in France, was expected to sell for about €2,000 (around $1,952), according to The Guardian.

A prized Chinese vase which dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as merely a 'clever reproduction' went on to sell for £53million after sitting in a loft for four decades.

Your Chinese floor vase appears to be brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin.

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The red and white vase and the yellow-glazed pitcher are from the reign of Kangxi Emperor in China (1661 to 1722) Two rare Chinese antiques that had been in an East Sussex home for more than 100 ...

The art expert believed the vase was just a decorative piece worth less than $2,000, but it sold for more than 4,000 times his estimate in France.

According to The Guardian, the story has cost one of the auctioneer’s experts his job, after a Chinese vase he declared an ordinary decorative piece worth €2,000 (£1,750) at most sold for ...

The "exceedingly rare" Chinese Clair-de-Lune Glazed Porcelain Bottle Vase was previously owned by members of the Fleischmann family.

A prized Chinese vase dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as merely a 'clever reproduction' went on to sell for £53million after sitting in a loft for four decades.