Chinese porcelains are among the hardest for an average collector to identify and date. They have been made for centuries and it is considered a tribute, not an attempt to fool a customer, to copy a ...
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.
Hallmarks and manufacturer’s stamps are some of the first things appraisers look at when attempting to date an antique. Such is the case with a 19-inch Chinese porcelain vase painted with birds and ...
Two 18th-century Chinese vases have sold for £260,000 or roughly $327,000 at an auction at Nesbits. They belonged to a “working class” vendor in his late 30s, who found them while clearing out his ...
LONDON—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 ...
From gifts and family heirlooms to estate sale finds, our collectors have given us a wonderfully varied group of treasures to review this month, ranging in value up from a pressed glass oil lamp and ...
A Chinese porcelain vase once knocked over by the family cat fetched just over £3 million at auction yesterday - One hundred and twenty three times times more than expected. The 300-year-old blue and ...
A British brother and sister cleaned out their late parents’ dusty suburban attic and stumbled onto a fortune — an 18th century Chinese porcelain vase that sold at auction last night for a whopping ...
He kept it rather precariously on top of a bookcase in the living room – an elegant Chinese vase with a fish motif on the front and gold banding that glistened occasionally in the sunlight. One nudge ...
An 18th-century Chinese porcelain vase discovered when a house was cleared out was sold Thursday at a London auction for $69.3 million (43 million pounds). Bainbridges, the auction house, said that ...
The rare 18th century yangcai porcelain vase – thought to have been made for the Qianlong Emperor – tipped to sell for about US$637,000 at Sotheby’s auction in Paris on June 12 A rare 18th century ...
The vase is thought to have left China about 150 years ago A vase found in a house clearance in London has been sold for £43m, thought to be a record for any Chinese artwork. The 18th Century Qianlong ...
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