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 ...

Noritake is a china collector's dream, with thousands of colorful, hand-painted patterns and ceramic designs appearing on everything from pin trays to dinner plates and vases to teapots.

A porcelain ... symbolizes the Chinese philosophical concept of 'heaven is round, and the earth is square'," Lian says. This geometric harmony was just the beginning. The vase's rim is adorned ...

A former solicitor who put an antique Chinese vase up for ... more than 250 times the guide price. The 16ins porcelain vase was made for the Chinese emperor Qianlong, who ruled between 1736 ...

Most yangcai porcelain is now housed in the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, with one similar vase in the Guimet Museum of Paris. Chinese art has been admired and collected across Europe for ...

The vase is thought to have left China about 150 years ago A vase found in a house clearance in London has been sold for £43m, thought to be a record for any Chinese artwork. The 18th Century ...

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 ...

The vase is thought to have left China about 150 years ago A vase found in a house clearance in London has been sold for £43m, thought to be a record for any Chinese artwork. The 18th Century ...