The blue and white 10ins vase was thought by the auctioneers to be a later imitation of a Xuande period ceramic but Chinese ...

China has been here before, though. It’s no wonder that its present leaders are co-opting the endlessly evocative path that a millennium and a half ago lured into its heartland the world’s greatest ...

The vase was woefully undervalued on the BBC decades prior, then sold for millions (Picture: BBC/PA) An incredibly valuable vase claimed to be worth just hundreds of pounds on a BBC show then sold for ...

A vase that was once rejected by experts on an early version of Antiques Roadshow has sold for a staggering £53 million after being rediscovered in an attic. The 16-inch porcelain vase, which dates ...

A vase initially dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as a clever fake fetched an eye-watering £53million after languishing in an attic for four decades. The BBC's 1970s antiques game show 'Going for a ...

An unassuming vase, deemed a mere imitation by an antiques expert and neglected in an attic for 40 years, has astonishingly sold for £53million at auction. The BBC's nostalgia-tinged '70s show 'Going ...

Nine ancient Chinese porcelain pieces, estimated to be worth more than 1 million euros ($1.073 million), have recently been stolen from a museum in Cologne, Germany that boasts a prolific collection ...

The Osenat auction house employee responsible for pricing a blue-and-white dragon vase at $1,900, and then watching it sell for $7.5 million—more than 4,000 times the original estimate—has been fired ...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! In the early 1980s, a UK-based surgeon bought an eye-catching deep blue vase featuring metallic embellishments and animal decor typical of imperial Chinese ...

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 ...

A vase kept in a kitchen in England could sell for £150,000 ($186,000) after it was revealed to be a rare 18th century Chinese artifact which was created for the Qianlong Emperor. The vase was ...