The box was bought for just £19 ($24) in 1946 and was expected to fetch between £6,000 and £10,000 ($7,400 and $12,400) when it went under the hammer last week, according to Dreweatts auctioneers.

A set of bowls displayed in a house for decades has made more than £112,000 at auction. The ceramics, stored in a cardboard box before being offered for sale, turned out to be rare Chinese porcelain.

LIFESTYLE Chinese box believed to be owned by emperor from Ming Dynasty found in dusty cabinet, now set for auction A WWII major bought the unique decorative box while in London ...

Ming porcelain items don’t come on the market very often London: A porcelain bowl left gathering dust in a family kitchen was from the Ming dynasty and has sold for £199,750 (nearly Rs 1.5 ...

Hauled to auction in a cardboard box... the 600-year-old Ming 'moonflask' worth £1MILLION By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 12:32 EDT, 10 February 2011 ...

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 ...

During the Ming dynasty, China's porcelain production flourished, creating vases and cups that symbolised status and artistry, being extremely expensive. Centuries-old porcelain originated in ...

The founding of the Dutch East India Company VOC 1602 also finally opened up the European market for Ming porcelain. Especially the blue and white Kraak porcelain was an exotic decorative luxury in ...

The box was bought for just £19 ($24) in 1946 and was expected to fetch between £6,000 and £10,000 ($7,400 and $12,400) when it went under the hammer last week, according to Dreweatts auctioneers.

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 ...