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 ...

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 ...

It was just an old Chinese vase that had been in the family for 80 years. It turned out to be much more. When the intricately painted 18th-century piece went on the block at Bainbridges, a small ...

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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 ...

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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 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 ...

11:26, Tue, Sep 26, 2023 Updated: 11:26, Tue, Sep 26, 2023 The unassuming small square-shaped pots were found by TV antiques expert Charles Hanson at an event in Northamptonshire. Charles - a familiar ...

Steve Wynn says vaaaaases. $12.8 million vaaaaases, that is. Wynn, chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts Ltd., paid $12.8 million (8 million pounds) at a London auction for a set of four 18th century ...

Trawling the seabed near the south coast of Vietnam in 1989, a Vietnamese fisherman stumbled upon the remains of the wreck of a ship that was traveling from China to Jakarta when it sunk some three ...