A plain-looking vase once used as a lamp base after someone drilled a hole into it has sold at auction for £16,500. The green Chinese porcelain celadon was tipped to sell for as little as £200.

A Chinese vase has sold for thousands at The Cotswold Auction Company's April sale, shattering its estimate. The celadon vase was ... including another porcelain vase, in Cong form and from ...

A vase found ... on its base. The six-character mark indicates that the porcelain was created in the imperial kiln during the Yongzheng Emperor's rule in the 18th century. The Chinese emperor ...

Produced in this area and achieving fame across the world, Longquan celadon is a type of green-glazed Chinese porcelain with a history of 1,700 years, beginning in the 3rd century. Although it ...

From various archive sources and rigorous examination of the inscriptions, Lane identified the vase in Dublin as the first credibly documented piece of Chinese porcelain in Europe. From RTE's ...