Initially expected to sell for approximately $100,000, a rare Chinese vase that was made for the 18th-century Qianlong Emperor has sold for $487,000, or 380,000 British pounds, SWNS reports. When ...

A Chinese vase expected to fetch €1,500-€2,000 (around $1,470-$1,960) at auction has sold for more than €9 million ($8.8 million) after a bidding war between collectors.

A vase that was purchased for 1 British pound ($1.21) could be worth nearly $100,000 (80,000 British pounds) after it was revealed that the vase was made for the 18th-century Qianlong Emperor.

The vase, which was described as "quite ordinary" by the Osenat auction house in France, was expected to sell for about €2,000 (around $1,952), according to The Guardian.

So, when a bargain hunter in Hertfordshire, England, listed a small vase purchased at a local thrift shop on eBay, they couldn’t possibly have expected their £1 investment to turn into £80,000.

A long-forgotten Chinese vase, once auctioned for just $56, has sold for over $9 million after being found “surrounded by cats and dogs” in an elderly woman’s country home.

TULSA - A Chinese vase at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa has sold for $14.5 million. $14 million is the same price as Tom Brady’s New York City luxury apartment and Oprah’s mansion in Colorado.

A rare Chinese vase, which sold for just $56 in 1954, sold for a staggering $9 million on Saturday at Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction.

A Chinese vase expected to go for less than $2,000 at a French auction on Saturday instead fetched a record-breaking $8.8 million. Originally thought to be worth $1,470 to $1,960, the vase shot up ...

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