The artwork’s last owner purchased it for just a few hundred pounds. Photo courtesy of Dreweatts When Mark Newstead first saw the blue-and-gold porcelain vase sitting in his friend’s kitchen in the ...

The true color of this Chinese, Qing dynasty vase, on display at Harvard Art Museums, doesn’t seem to come out in reproduction. It is a kind of pale but glossy sky blue with hints of gray and ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese Qing dynasty vase sold for HK$253 million ($32.4 million) in a Sotheby's sale in Hong Kong on Thursday, a world record at auction for any Chinese porcelain. "This is ...

A rare Qing Dynasty porcelain vase, once dismissed as a cleverly crafted imitation, sold for £53 million after languishing for 40 years in a British family's attic. Crafted around 1740, the vase's ...

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A Hong Kong-based collector has paid $251 million HK ($32.9 million Cdn) for a Qing Dynasty vase, setting a record for a Chinese work of art at auction. The yellow-ground famille-rose double-gourd ...

A rare Qing dynasty vase that was discovered in the attic of a French family home has sold at auction in Paris for €16.2 million, or about $19 million. That’s the absolute record for a piece sold at ...

Hong Kong-based connoisseur Alice Cheng holds the Qing Dynasty vase that she bought at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong October 7, 2010. [Photo/Agencies] BEIJING - A 300-year-old vase fetched HK$252.6 ...

A Chinese vase that auctioneers expected would sell for 1,200 euros ($1,336) has sold in Ireland for 740,000 euros ($825,000), an Irish record for a piece of art sold at auction. A vase from Qing ...

Hong Kong-based connoisseur Alice Cheng holds the Qing Dynasty vase that she bought at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong October 7, 2010. [Photo/Agencies] BEIJING - A 300-year-old vase fetched HK$252.6 ...