LONDON – It was just an old Chinese vase that had been tucked away unnoticed for years when the woman found it while clearing out her late sister’s modest suburban London home. It turned out to be ...

A PAIR of nine-inch high Chinese vases, bought for “a few hundred quid” in a Dublin antiques shop, sold yesterday for €170,000. They were acquired for a collector in China by a London agent bidding on ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A Chinese vase discovered during a routine house clearance in a London suburb sold for 43 million pounds ($69 million) Thursday, 40 times its estimate and an auction record for any ...

“My dad brought two of these vases back from his WWII Marine duty in the Pacific,” Valerie Panosian wrote in an email to the column hoping to find out more information about some pieces she had ...

The red and white vase and the yellow-glazed pitcher are from the reign of Kangxi Emperor in China (1661 to 1722) Two rare Chinese antiques that had been in an East Sussex home for more than 100 years ...

Some ceramic wares that were deliberately made to look like cloisonne enamels from Asia could fool a beginner. The Longwy factory of France started making pottery in 1798. In 1872, it began producing ...

Q: I want to sell my Oriental vases. All three have been converted into lamps. The friend who gave me two told me they were worth $1,000 each. A: Because both readers want to sell, I suggest they shop ...

An 18th-century Chinese vase forgotten for decades in a shoe box in a French attic sold for 16.2 million euros at Sotheby's in Paris on Tuesday -- more than 30 times the estimate. Experts at the ...