A Chinese vase sold for $5.2 million at a Geneva auction house on Sept 21. [Photo/VCG] A Chinese vase was sold for a record five million Swiss francs ($5.18 million) at a Geneva auction house on ...

PARIS (Reuters) - An 18th century Chinese vase found in a shoebox in an attic in France sold for 16.2 million euros (£14.3 million) at auction in Paris on Tuesday. The price was more than 20 ...

A Chinese vase that sat, little-noticed, in a suburban London home has become one of the most expensive artworks ever sold, evidence that China's sizzling art market shows no signs of cooling down.

Today it forms the centrepiece of a tale that involves ... The bidder who bought the vase was a Chinese man in his thirties, acting as agent for the buyer and sitting quietly on a sofa at the ...

An 18th Century Chinese vase, left for decades in a shoebox in France, has sold for 16.2m euros (£14.2m). The vase was auctioned at Sotheby's in Paris on Tuesday and sold for more than 20 times ...

A Chinese vase expected to fetch €1,500-€2,000 (around $1,470-$1,960) at auction has sold for more than €9 million ($8.8 million) after a bidding war between collectors. The blue-and-white ...

The vase sold instead for £47,800 when it was ... He was an enthusiastic patron of all forms of Chinese art and published catalogues of Royal collections which he expanded greatly.

A rare Chinese vase discovered on a bookshelf by an antique dealer during a routine valuation is tipped to sell for £100,000. The owner of the 'sublimely beautiful' 11ins tall porcelain item was ...