AN EXPERT on Antiques Roadshow was left stunned when a guest insisted her painted plate was "not for sale" despite its valuation.
The woman had brought the plate, gifted to her grandfather, to the V&A in Dundee, where she met with the artists great grand daughter Theo Burrell.
Holding onto the decorated plate, which featured an intricate design of Japanese-style landscapes, she began to explain where it came from. "I've come all the way from Edinburgh just to see if you can tell me anything about this," the old woman began, clutching the plate. "Well this is a very nice, and large, Chinese porcelain basin, and its decorated in traditional Amari colours - the iron red, cobalt blue and the highlights," Theo then explained. "It's going to be.
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