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 ...

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 ...

An old Chinese vase which was used as a doorstop and almost ended up at a car boot sale, sold at auction on Friday for £650,000. The weighty 26 inch tall blue and white porcelain vase survived 36 ...

"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.

Despite the global recession, Chinese antiques have been selling for record amounts in recent years. In the market for an antique vase or scroll? Be prepared to spend millions. Here are a few ...

Art is a big hobby of mine and I tried almost ... ABC brings us the next most expensive vase from 2011. A 500-year-old Chinese vase was sold in Hong Kong for over $22 million, one of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 world's most expensive privately owned vases originally come from China. They are all imperial ... as the three Qing emperors were avid collectors of antique ceramics and commissioned many ...