A LALIQUE ‘FLOWERPOT’

A GLASS vase bought for £1 at a car boot sale by a lady in Ayrshire — and only because she liked the plant inside it — turned out to be a very canny investment.

When the plant withered and died, she put the vase in the attic and in 2008 was in the middle of a clearout — the vase was already in a box of junk to be dumped — when she heard the Antiques Roadshow team were in town.

Stunned experts explained that her flowerpot was actually a 1929 vase by the renowned French designer Rene Lalique and valued it at £30,000. it was sold later that year for £32,450 at a London auction.