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A coveted "chicken cup" ceramic is estimated to fetch as much as $38.5 million at auction in Hong Kong.
A 15th century box is up for auction after sitting in a WWII veteran's family home for over 55 years. The box is believed to have been made for an emperor.
West Michigan; Salvaged Ming and Qing Dynasty porcelain from Chinese shipwreck hits auction block in Wyoming. Published: ; Mar. 13, 2012, 10:00 a.m.
This is not the first time that a Ming Dynasty artifact has smashed its auction estimate. In July 2020, two rare volumes of an ancient Chinese encyclopedia sold for more than €8 million ($9 ...
The Chinese characters on the crumpled banknote show that it was issued in the third year of the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty — or 1371 in the Western calendar.
The Princess Taiping, a 57 foot ornate replica of a Ming dynasty Chinese junk, has just completed a transpacific voyage and will be docked at the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco.
Chinese student protesters are claiming that the Christian Dior fashion house has ripped off a classic skirt design from China that dates back to the Ming dynasty. Dozens of Chinese students took ...
The price contrasts with another carpet from the palace which sold for $7.16 million as it was more intact because it had a border. The Ming dynasty lasted from 1368 to 1644 and the dragon motif ...