$1 million paid for rare Ming jar

The Associate Press LONDON -- A jar bought in an antique shop for $145 sold Wednesday for more than $1 million after experts identified it as a 500-year-old Ming dynasty rarity. Sotheby's auction house had estimated the jar's worth at $390,000, but it reached a sale price of $1.09 million after a seven-minute bidding battle. The jar, found on the back shelf of a shop selling European ceramics, dates from the 1465-87 reign of emperor Chenghua...