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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 ...
West Michigan Salvaged Ming and Qing Dynasty porcelain from Chinese shipwreck hits auction block in Wyoming Published: Mar. 13, 2012, 10:00 a.m.
Our Chinese collection is one of the most important in a Europe. Lever was most interested in Britain's 18th century grand country houses and how they were decorated.
The Rockefeller Collection features exquisite examples of these innovations, including porcelain dishes in vibrant red and yellow–red being the symbolic color of the Ming imperial family. This ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...