Auction bowled over by £800,000 Ming vase

A Chinese vase has sold for 450 times its guide price after auctioneers mistook it for a copy.

The 500-year-old porcelain wucai fish vase broke house records for Birmingham auctioneers Fellows when it sold for £810,000, despite bidding beginning at £1,000.

It had been priced by the auction house at just £1,800, but a range of bidders had spotted that it was actually made during the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming dynasty.