A royal blue 18th-century Chinese vase decorated with gold and silver, which sat in a U.K. kitchen for several years, just sold at auction for about $1.8 million after historians realized it had ...

A long-forgotten Chinese vase, once auctioned for just $56, has sold for over $9 million after being found “surrounded by cats and dogs” in an elderly woman’s country home.

An extraordinarily rare Chinese vase that was found in an attic in France is going under the hammer next month at Sotheby’s Paris, where it is expected to fetch between $600,000–850,000.

A Chinese vase expected to fetch €1,500-€2,000 (around $1,470-$1,960) at auction has sold for more than €9 million ($8.8 million) after a bidding war between collectors.

The traditional blue-white vase was expected to reach a high of $2,000 USD but ended up seeing a hammer price of $7.6 million USD — $9 million after fees.