A long-forgotten Chinese vase, once sold at auction for just £44 ($56), went under the hammer for over 70 million Hong Kong dollars ($9 million) on Saturday after being discovered in an elderly ...

LONDON – It was just an old Chinese vase that had been tucked away unnoticed for years when the woman found it while clearing out her late sister’s modest suburban London home. It turned out to be ...

“My dad brought two of these vases back from his WWII Marine duty in the Pacific,” Valerie Panosian wrote in an email to the column hoping to find out more information about some pieces she had ...

A blue and white vase with an elongated pear-shape and lotus-flower mouth opening dating from 18th-century China just fetched $1.6 million at auction—320 times its pre-sale estimate. It was discovered ...

A woman who found a Chinese vase when clearing the house of her dead sister has sold it for a world record-breaking £43m. The 18th-century piece of Qianlong-era porcelain was expected to fetch between ...

The red and white vase and the yellow-glazed pitcher are from the reign of Kangxi Emperor in China (1661 to 1722) Two rare Chinese antiques that had been in an East Sussex home for more than 100 years ...

A former solicitor who put an antique Chinese vase up for auction two years ago has only just managed to sell the piece after a lengthy legal row over the auctioneers' fees. Tony Johnson and his ...

Some ceramic wares that were deliberately made to look like cloisonne enamels from Asia could fool a beginner. The Longwy factory of France started making pottery in 1798. In 1872, it began producing ...

A Chinese porcelain vase once knocked over by the family cat fetched just over £3 million at auction yesterday - One hundred and twenty three times times more than expected. The 300-year-old blue and ...

Peter Bainbridge displays the catalogue showing the 18th-century porcelain vase his firm auctioned. ((Kirsty Wigglesworth/Associated Press)) An 18th-century imperial ...

By Murray Wardrop and Murraywardrop 11 November 2010 • 11:22pm The 18th century Qianlong-dynasty porcelain vase is believed to have fetched the highest price for any Chinese artwork sold at auction ...

Experts said the vase could have been worth much more had it not been damaged A rare Chinese vase found under a table has sold for more than eight times its guide price despite fears damage would harm ...