British and Swiss Police Break up a Crime Ring and Recover a Valuable Ming Vase in a Sting Operation

British and Swiss Police Break up a Crime Ring and Recover a Valuable Ming Vase in a Sting Operation
A Chinese vase which dates back to the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty in a photo released on Aug. 19, 2023. Metropolitan Police via AP
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LONDON—A sting operation at a London hotel helped authorities recover a 15th-century Chinese vase worth about 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) and break up the criminal ring believed to have stolen the artifact from a Swiss museum, British police said Saturday.

The vase, which dates to the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, was one of three items stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva in 2019.