LONDON – It was just an old Chinese vase that had been tucked away unnoticed ... pre-sale estimate and a record for a Chinese work of art – an outcome Bainbridge called “a fairy tale ...

Two rare Chinese antiques more than 300 years old and part of a family collection in East Sussex have been sold for a combined £135,500. The vase and wine pitcher were from the reign of the Kangxi ...

An art expert in France has been fired after valuing a Chinese vase 4,000 times less ... "We don't know whether it [the vase] is old or not or why it sold for such a price. Perhaps we will never ...

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 ...

A 700-year-old Chinese vase from the Southern Song Dynasty is expected ... and International Specialist at Chinese Works of Art Department, Julian King, said its octagonal shape, inspired by ...

"In China, there are many counterfeits, so art collectors can never be sure ... Meng is bringing an antique vase back to Beijing - for 70,000 euros. He'll carry it in his hand luggage.

The vase eventually was sold to an unidentified Chinese buyer for the grand total of 9.121 million euros ($9.02 million), including fees. “Our expert still thinks it’s not old,” states Laborde.

"The view of an expert can't outweigh that of 300 people," said Jean-Pierre Osenat, president of the Osenat auction house This Chinese ... Parisian art collector and had owned the vase for 30 ...

The red and white vase ... art in Britain during the Victorian era. Back in 2005, Woolley & Wallis sold one of Mr Alexander's collection in Heathfield Park, a blue and white vase from China's ...

A Chinese vase expected to fetch €1,500 ... The grandmother was a keen art collector and had owned the vase for 30 years, he said, adding that there were early signs of huge interest in the ...