Ming vase expected to fetch quarter of a million

By Cara Sulieman

A MING vase with connections to an old biscuit company is expected to fetch a quarter of a million when it goes under the hammer tomorrow.

The delicate 500-year-old Chinese creation is from a collection owned by Reginald Palmer, the chairman of the Huntley and Palmer biscuit company.

Still in the family, the vase is now going under the hammer for the first time since 1935.

A spokesman for Bonhams, who are selling the vase as a part of their Asia Week Chinese art auction sales, said that there were high hopes the owner would make good money on his original investment of just £55.