The previous owner of the bowl had "no idea" of its value A porcelain bowl that languished on a shelf for years "shocked and delighted" its owner by selling for more than £200,000. The blue and white ...

Two pieces of Chinese porcelain discovered in British charity shops could fetch thousands at auction. The pieces were taken to UK auctioneers Woolley and Wallis, where chairman and Asian art ...

Last year, a man attended a yard sale in New Haven, Connecticut, and forked over $35 for a white porcelain bowl patterned with blue flowers. That price might seem a little steep to seasoned yard ...

The British Museum has received a private collection of Chinese ceramics estimated at approximately £1 billion GBP ($1.27 billion USD) — the highest-value object gift in UK museum history. Donated by ...

Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers, in Essex, England, sold a Chinese blue-and-white ceramic jardinière to a Chinese buyer for nearly 200 times its $610 high estimate, bringing the hammer down at nearly ...

The sweeping history of Delft’s exquisite blue-and-white ceramics stretches across the globe. Cath Pound explores an intriguing tale of obsession, piracy and long-held secrets. The striking ...

A harmonious, but superficially unprepossessing dish at the British Museum has turned out to be an extremely rare glazed ceramic—nearly 1,000 years old. Less than one hundred of these stoneware pieces ...

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The Oriental Ceramic Society (OCS) has a name that invokes a bygone era, an age of colonial administrators and a Western penchant for chinoiserie. But its new president insists that the name is the ...

An 18th-century imperial porcelain bowl that had remained in private hands sold for HK$198 million (about US$25.4 million) at a Sotheby’s sale of Chinese works of art in Hong Kong over the weekend.