Auctions A Blue-and-White Dragon Vase Just Sold for $7.5 Million—More Than 4,000 Times Its $1,900 Estimate "It exceeds the price of Napoleon's saber!" ...

Monstrous Beauty’ at the Met proposes a link between Europeans’ attitudes towards Chinoiserie and their fetishisation of the ...

The Osenat auction house employee responsible for pricing a blue-and-white dragon vase at $1,900, and then watching it sell for $7.5 million— more than 4,000 times the original estimate — has ...

The art expert believed the vase was just a decorative piece worth less than $2,000, but it sold for more than 4,000 times his estimate in France. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of empires and seeded stereotypes of Asian women. By Aruna D’Souza The dragon ...

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.

The "exceedingly rare" Chinese Clair-de-Lune Glazed Porcelain Bottle Vase was previously owned by members ... The "elegant light-blue," 6-inch vase sold for almost 300 times its pre-sale estimate ...

SINGAPORE: A Chinese vase put up for auction by a French auction house has been sold for €7.7 million (US$7.6m) - nearly 4,000 times its estimated value. Valued at just €2,000 (US$1,966), it ...