A centuries-old Chinese vase smashed to pieces when a museum ... 42 said after the incident. The restored vase forms part of the "Mission Impossible?" exhibition, running at the museum until ...

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 ...

mostly Chinese, were convinced that the vase was a rare 18th-century artefact. The term tianqiuping means "celestial sphere vase" and derives from the vase's form. On the auction house Osenat ...

Two rare Chinese antiques more than 300 years old and part of a family collection in East Sussex have been sold for a combined £135,500. The vase and wine ... modelled in the form of characters ...

A Chinese vase described as “quite ordinary” turned out to be anything but after selling for almost 4,000 times its estimated value over the weekend. Originally expected to fetch between 1,500 ...

A vase found in the kitchen cabinet of a well-known Cincinnati couple sold in a Chicago auction Tuesday for nearly $445,000. The "exceedingly rare" Chinese Clair-de-Lune Glazed Porcelain Bottle ...

A Chinese vase expected to go for less than $2,000 at a French auction on Saturday instead fetched a record-breaking $8.8 million. Originally thought to be worth $1,470 to $1,960, the vase shot ...

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 ...