A cage fighter behind Britain’s biggest armed robbery was the target of a “Hollywood blockbuster” murder plot, a police chief has said. Paul Allen, then 41, was paralysed for life after ...

they shattered glass casings housing 14th Century Chinese Ming Dynasty antiques. Three items were seized - a rare pomegranate vase; a doucai-style wine cup and a porcelain bowl - and had a ...

Three pieces of Ming-era porcelain were taken ... as they tried to sell the Ming vase to an undercover police officer. A later search of a property revealed a passport in the name of Stewart Ahearne ...

"It symbolizes the Chinese philosophical concept of 'heaven is round, and the earth is square'," Lian says. This geometric harmony was just the beginning. The vase's rim is adorned with a fine ...

Other items were successful at the auction too, including another porcelain vase, in Cong form and from the late Qing Dynasty/early Republic period, sold to a different Chinese buyer for £1,200 ...

crawl in and smash glass cabinets to steal the white pomegranate vase, as well as a porcelain bowl and doucai-style wine cup, also from the imperial Ming dynasty. Swiss police launched an ...

The trade war between the U.S. and China rages on but it did not spoil the mood of bidders taking part in a fine classical Chinese paintings ... Xiang Yuanbian from Ming dynasty made the work ...