LONDON – It was just an old Chinese vase that had been tucked away unnoticed for years when the woman found it while clearing out her late sister’s modest suburban London home. It turned out to be ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A Chinese vase discovered during a routine house clearance in a London suburb sold for 43 million pounds ($69 million) Thursday, 40 times its estimate and an auction record for any ...

“My dad brought two of these vases back from his WWII Marine duty in the Pacific,” Valerie Panosian wrote in an email to the column hoping to find out more information about some pieces she had ...

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 that had been in an East Sussex home for more than 100 years ...

An historic Chinese vase made for an 18th century emperor has sold at auction for £50,000 - but could have been worth ten times that value had a previous owner not drilled a hole in the bottom to turn ...

A Dutch art dealer realized the vase's significance after appraising an elderly European woman's collection. Courtesy of Sotheby's Porcelain vases and roaming pets can be a precarious combination.

A seemingly run-of-the mill porcelain vase, estimated to sell at auction for 2,000 euros, sold for nearly 4,000 times its estimate at 7.7 million euros (about $7.6 million). Sold by Osenat auction ...

Descendants of China’s last royal family are $3 million richer after a rare vase was sold at a Toronto auction — for 10 times its maximum estimate. “It’s exceptional,” Kashif Khan, managing director ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. June is the cruellest month, at least in auction circles. Experts say they traditionally struggle to shift product at the end of the ...

A Chinese porcelain vase once knocked over by the family cat fetched just over £3 million at auction yesterday - One hundred and twenty three times times more than expected. The 300-year-old blue and ...

A prized Chinese vase dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as merely a 'clever reproduction' went on to sell for £53million after sitting in a loft for four decades. The fate of the Qianlong Imperial ...