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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sold an extremely rare but seldom-shown 18th-century Chinese vase for $14.5 million at Christie’s Hong Kong. The tianqiuping vase, which was ...
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 rare Chinese vase dating from the 18th century has sold for nearly £1.5 million ($1.8 million) at auction. The gilded blue artifact was initially valued at £150,000 ($186,000), according to ...
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 ...
Check your cabinets, ladies and gentlemen. 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 ...
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Experience Meekyoung Shin’s perfectly rendered copies of ancient porcelain and busts in person and you’ll detect a waft of fragrance emanating from them. Inspect more closely (not too closely, of ...
A museum visitor who tripped over his shoelace and smashed three 17th-century Chinese porcelain vases will not be charged with causing criminal damage.