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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
A seemingly run-of-the mill porcelain vase, estimated to sell at auction for 2,000 euros, sold for nearly 4,000 times its estimate at 7.7 million euros (about $7.6 million). Sold by Osenat auction ...
Descendants of China’s last royal family are $3 million richer after a rare vase was sold at a Toronto auction — for 10 times its maximum estimate. “It’s exceptional,” Kashif Khan, managing director ...
A Dutch art dealer realized the vase's significance after appraising an elderly European woman's collection. Courtesy of Sotheby's Porcelain vases and roaming pets can be a precarious combination.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. June is the cruellest month, at least in auction circles. Experts say they traditionally struggle to shift product at the end of the ...
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 ...
A prized Chinese vase dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as merely a 'clever reproduction' went on to sell for £53million after sitting in a loft for four decades. The fate of the Qianlong Imperial ...
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