A French court ordered the high-profile Galerie Kraemer in Paris to return €2.8 million (around $3.25 million) to collector Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani over questions about a Chinese vase. The decision follows eight years of legal wrangling over the date attributed to the piece. As reported by the Art Newspaper, the Paris court of appeal sided with the collector, a cousin of the Emir of Qatar, “because of ‘serious doubts’ about the 18th-century dating of the gilded bronze mounts of the porcelain vase.” Related Articles The vase sold for €815 ($945) in Brazil 20 years ago, according to investigators cited by TAN, and then passed through a Paris flea market and three antique dealers before being purchased by Laurent Kraemer for €180,000 ($208,750). But after Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani bought the vase in 2012, he had it examined in the wake of questions raised after “Galerie Kraemer was embroiled in several fake furniture cases (including one involving counterfeit royal chairs sold to the same collector, for which the gallery was acquitted of deception …