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 ...
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.
An historic Chinese vase made for an 18th century emperor has sold at auction for £50,000 - but could have been worth ten times that value had a previous owner not drilled a hole in the bottom to turn ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A former solicitor who put an antique Chinese vase up for auction two years ago has only just managed to sell the piece after a lengthy legal row over the auctioneers' fees. Tony Johnson and his ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
The vase at a Skinner's auction in Boston. [Photo/Skinner] A Chinese vase from the Qing Dynasty was sold for $24.72 million at a Skinner's auction in Boston on Sept 17, the highest record so far ...
Antiques Roadshow visited Christchurch Park in Ipswich for a previous episode of the popular BBC show. Antique expert Alexandra Aguilar valued an imperial Chinese porcelain vase on the show and ...