A rare Ming-era wine cup broke the world auction record for any Chinese porcelain on Tuesday, selling in Hong Kong for $36.05 million to Shanghai tycoon Liu Yiqian, Sotheby’s auction house said.

GUEST: In the spring of 1982, my parents took a trip, and they went to China for a month. And they traveled all over, and they came back, and they were fascinated by the beautiful ...

Starting today, a collection of porcelain Ming and Qing Dynasty artifacts salvaged about 20 years ago from a shipwreck in the South China Sea is available for the public to view at Auction ...

A rare Ming Dynasty cup that's more than 500 years old has fetched $36 million at a Hong Kong auction, smashing the previous world record price for Chinese porcelain.

This figure is of Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, which was made in Ming Dynasty. [Photo courtesy of National Museums Liverpool] The new Chinese rooms, opening this Friday, have seen the gallery's ...

The jar to be sold used to be in the possession of Hu Huichun (1910-93), one of the most important Chinese connoisseurs and collectors of 20th century. He assembled a celebrated collection of ...

BERLIN — At the bottom of the ocean off Indonesia, a cargo of blue-and-white Chinese porcelain worth about $43 million has lain submerged for more than 400 years. The 700,000 pieces — fine ...

Auctions A 15th-Century Chinese Porcelain Bowl Bought for $35 at a Connecticut Yard Sale Just Sold for Over $700,000 at Auction There are only six other bowls of its kind known to exist.

MING PORCELAIN HAS always been highly prized. Its makers have been patronized by Chinese emperors, its pieces eagerly sought by European princes, then fought over at auction by the Industrial Age ...

"Frits Lugt started assembling his Chinese porcelain collection when he lived in the Netherlands. After the Second World War, the couple settled in Paris, and Lugt continued his acquisitions from ...