Almost every list of the year's most expensive antique transactions will include ... in the Japanese home known as a tokonama. Bronze usubata vases are typically unpainted and unpolished but ...

The world's most expensive privately owned vases originally come from China ... as the three Qing emperors were avid collectors of antique ceramics and commissioned many historic pottery styles ...

At 5 p.m. today the auction house issued a release saying that the owner of the archaic Chinese bronze had accepted a private sale offer. A group of private collectors from China’s Hunan ...