A rare Chinese vase dating from the 18th century has sold for nearly £1.5 million ($1.8 million) at auction. The gilded blue artifact was initially valued at £150,000 ($186,000), according to ...

The red and white vase and the yellow-glazed pitcher are from the reign of Kangxi Emperor in China (1661 to 1722) Two rare Chinese antiques ... and were purchased by art connoisseur and ...

A vase found in the kitchen cabinet of a well-known Cincinnati couple sold in a Chicago auction Tuesday for nearly $445,000. The "exceedingly rare ... Chinese and Himalayan Works of Art sale.

Investors are slowly waking to the opportunities created by China’s ban on the export of rare earths but a modest uptick in the share prices of non-Chinese miners of the material could be just ...

In fact, Osenat’s expert claims if the vase had been 200 years older it would have been extremely rare—presumably without a doubt. Despite this, it’s clear that the mainly Chinese bidders ...

A French auction house fired one of its art experts ... this vase to be a rare artifact dating back to the 18th century, which bore a stamp of Qianlong, who was a former Chinese emperor and ...

In the 1980s, a British surgeon purchased a royal blue vase for a few hundred pounds and displayed it in his kitchen. Little did he know that the object was a rare ... Chinese Ceramics and Works ...

The sale highlights the intense and growing competition among wealthy Chinese buyers for rare ... vase for $32.4 million (20.0 million pounds) and their Asian auction series of art, jewellery ...

New images have been released of the homemade bombs — containing nails and a “very rare explosive compound” — New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar planted along Bourbon Street ahead of ...

Two rare Chinese antiques ... to £36,000 at auction. The vase and wine pitcher were from the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (1661 to 1722) and were purchased by art connoisseur and philanthropist ...