Yet it went on to become the most expensive piece of Chinese porcelain ever to come on to the market - eventually. The heirloom had remained in a family loft, in Pinner in north-west London ...

Most of these expensive vases were made by royal ... one of the biggest stand-alone sales for a Chinese monochrome porcelain. The vase is said to be inspired by the 8th-century Tang Dynasty ...

The envy of potters and collectors in Europe and the Middle East, Chinese blue-and-white porcelain owed its excellence to the fine clay available to the Chinese as well as to their high ...

The teapot is part of a large collection and was made at a time when tea drinking was becoming fashionable and there was a desire to produce porcelain to compete with expensive Chinese imports.

An curved arrow pointing right. Handmade ceramics aren't cheap, but porcelain is often even more expensive. Compared to other ceramics, porcelain is non-porous, white, and translucent. The secret ...

The world's most expensive privately owned vases originally ... Most buyers tend to be wealthy Chinese moguls who are proud of their heritage and want to bring imperial porcelains back to China.