Smashing vases
Updated on 30 January 2006
What the mobile phone saw when a man fell into three priceless Chinese vases at the Fitzwilliam musuem.
What the mobile phone saw when a man fell into three priceless Chinese vases at the Fitzwilliam musuem.
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If there was ever a reason to make sure your shoelaces are tied, this was it.
A hapless visitor to the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge managed to trip over his laces, fall down a marble staircase and in the process knock over three 18th century vases.
Smashing them all to pieces. The museum, which won't name the man responsible, say the vases - worth a whopping £150,000 - will be pieced back together.
Our arts correspondent Nicholas Glass has the full story
