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 ...

Two Chinese vases given to a 19th-century British minister who saved a small boy from drowning are set to land his descendants a $150,000 cash payout. The Rev. Samuel Edward Valpy Filleul, an avid ...

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 ...

AN ANTIQUES expert out on a routine valuation spotted a pair of Chinese vases worth more than £2 MILLION. Share Article Jeremy Morgan was in the drawing room of a country home when he noticed the ...

A MATCHING pair of rare Chinese vases that an unsuspecting couple had above their fireplace for decades have sold at auction for £324,000. The porcelain wall vases were spotted by an antique expert ...

IN the 41 years of wielding the gavel at his auction house, a stone’s throw from the royal chateau at Fontainebleau, a town southeast of Paris, Jean-Pierre Osenat has never seen anything like it.

For years they had been left sitting on a bedroom shelf and not given a thought. But a pair of Chinese vases found in a retired couple's modest home have just fetched £500,000 at auction. The Qianlong ...

A vase discovered in a Nottinghamshire home that was set to be cleared out has gone on to sell for thousands of pounds at auction. The blue and white patterned vase was just one of the items that had ...