HONG KONG (Reuters) - A prominent old world collection of imperial ceramics fetched $72 million at a Sotheby's Hong Kong sale on Wednesday, with an early Ming cobalt blue Meiping vase going for a ...
A rare vase worth up to £4million was sold for the relatively knock-down price of £550,000 – because a previous owner had turned it into a lamp. The 15th century Ming dynasty vase had been transformed ...
The vase was recovered in a sting operation two years later when officers posed as buyers offering £450,000. A Chinese Ming Dynasty vase stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva, ...
MOST people have heard of Ming Dynasty vases – they are famed for their incredible value and rarity. But because of that rarity it is not very often that they go on sale. However, on Wednesday one ...
Three men have been convicted after a £2 million vase stolen from a museum was recovered in a police sting operation. Families of Lucy Letby’s victims demand full public inquiry into serial killer ...
The blue and white vase had a drill hole in the base that obscured the tell-tale six character mark of the Emperor Xuande. The astonishing price paid was despite the hole and a wooden base and metal ...
The Meiyintang collection, a unique, respected assemblage of Chinese porcelain collected over nearly half a century by Swiss tycoons, the Zuellig brothers, was offered onto the market for the first ...
Quality blue-and-white porcelain is much sought-after at art auctions, and it can bring in exorbitant bids. Zhang Kun looks at the appeal of the qinghua ci. Apiece of Ming porcelain broke a world ...