Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: I know that it came from my paternal grandfather's side of the family, and I always thought it was this old, ugly vase.

Why would you put that out?

That is so ugly.

And my girlfriend had tickets to come to the show and invited me, and I thought, I'm going to take that old, ugly vase.

APPRAISER: Okay, well, let me tell you a little bit about it.

Your vase is Japanese, and it dates from the first quarter of the 20th century, and it is part of a group of Japanese ceramics that are referred to as coralene.

And you can see the flowers are built up with little beads of glass.

There is a mark here.

It says U.S.

patent office.

GUEST: U.S.

patent, yeah.

APPRAISER: That's so it could be imported into this country.

GUEST: Oh, okay.

APPRAISER: The value is probably in the $800 to $1,000 range.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: And the question is, is this still an ugly old vase?

GUEST: No, it's not.

I think it's gonna have a prominent place in my home now.

APPRAISER: It's gotten prettier in the last five minutes.

GUEST: (laughs) It has.

I don't think my mother's getting it back.