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and replaced the vase with a fake. Separately, the seller had also damaged a Chinese calligraphy painting belonging to the same customer while trying to clean it and replaced it with a printed copy.
The vase was worth at least HK$1,800,000 (about ... The painting was described in court documents as "Shui Diao Ge Tow, Chinese Ink on Paper", which is the name of a Song Dynasty poem.