The vase was recovered in a sting operation two years later when officers posed as buyers offering £450,000. A Chinese Ming Dynasty vase stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva ...

Three British men have been convicted for their roles in a plot that saw a £2 million porcelain Ming vase stolen from a museum - and later unwittingly handed over to undercover police officers.

The vase, which dates from the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), was stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva in June 2019. The Met, in co-operation with Swiss law enforcement ...

In October 2023, Wright was sentenced to three years in prison after a foiled plot to sell a £2million ($3.9m at current rates) Chinese Ming vase that had been stolen during a heist at the Museum ...

The vase, which dates to the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, was one of three items stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva in 2019. The Metropolitan Police Service made the ...

A porcelain vase created in 1954 ... Xiaoqing — a green snake spirit — and later their son seek to free her. Popularized through operas during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasties, it ...

But the culminating find," she continues, "the crowning glory of the event was the discovery of a splendid bottle-shaped vase dating back to about 1600, or the end of the Ming dynasty, of ...