A pair of jars purchased as part of a batch of ceramics from a London thrift store for £20 ($25) sold for almost 3,000 times that after they were found to date back to the Qing dynasty.

Recently, a pair of 4.5-inch-tall ceramic jars bought at a London charity shop for £20 (or $25) turned out to be 18th-century, Qing-Dynasty porcelain that could sell at auction for more than $60,000.

A pair of Qing dynasty ... jars and bear the Qianlong seal marks on the base in underglaze blue. Chrysanthemums and orchids were two of the four ‘gentlemen flowers’ commonly painted on ...

(MENAFN- USA Art News) A pair of Qing dynasty jars exceeded their $63,000 estimate ... Vessels with the same pattern have appeared in major porcelain exhibitions in China and Japan.

The eagle-eyed vendor, a young professional who collects ceramics, spotted the doucai porcelain ... the jars to his local auctioneers that he learned they were made in the Qing dynasty Imperial ...

A TINY porcelain jar ... rare Chinese 'heaven' jar dating back nearly 300 years. Several of the jars were made for the Chinese Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty but very few exist today.

A rare Qing Dynasty porcelain vase, once dismissed as a cleverly crafted imitation, sold for £53 million after languishing for 40 years in a British family's attic. Crafted around 1740 ...

vases and other porcelain items from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) era. But Mr. Chak—who started in the business in the 1970s as a teenager, working as a cleaner in an antique shop—is betting ...