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Pictured: Charles Hanson with the Imperial porcelain yellow ground medallion bowl which sold for £14,500.

A cardboard box full of family pots thought to be worth £30 have sold for a staggering £112,000 after it emerged some were rare Chinese ceramics.

A 67-year-old retired computer engineer gathered together plates, bowls and dishes that had been displayed for 40 years in his late mother’s
home in Etwall, near Derby.

The collection included a set of four small dishes which fetched £63,000, over 10 times their estimate.