He can see a vase and not only imagine the kind of room it once inhabited but the type of woman who might have brushed her fingertips across its lip. When he writes about porcelain, you ...

Measuring two feet in height, the porcelain vase is embellished with a six-character seal mark characteristic of the Qianlong era (1736-1795) along its base, the auction house said. It was made ...

An art expert in France has been fired after valuing a Chinese vase 4,000 times less than its sale price. The vase belonged to a woman who sold it after clearing her mother's belonging, according ...

A rare Imperial Qianlong porcelain vase (18th century) is displayed at Sotheby's auction company in Paris, on May 22, 2018. - The vase, which was stored in a shoebox in an attic for decades ...

The 18th-century porcelain vase, sold by a family clearing out a deceased relative's house, went to a Chinese buyer for 51.6 million pounds ($83 million) - more than 40 times the pre-sale estimate ...

London: A chipped Chinese porcelain vase, which was valued at just 150 pounds, fetched a whopping 114,500 pounds - 700 times its estimated price - when it went under the hammer at an auction in ...

That’s the absolute record for a piece sold at Sotheby’s Paris, and the record for a Chinese porcelain sale in France. The intricately decorated vase was hidden away in an old shoebox.