As it was in the time of the Silk Road, Chengdu, the massive capital of Sichuan Province, is a shopping mecca—these days ...

MOGENS JOHANSEN visits the Singapore Peranakan Mansion Museum to learn more about the fascinating Peranakan culture ...

Accra (Ghana), July 3 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gifted a pair of exquisite Bidriware flower vases to Ghanaian President John Mahama, highlighting India’s deep-rooted cultural heritage ...

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The "exceedingly rare" Chinese Clair-de-Lune Glazed Porcelain Bottle Vase was previously owned by members of the Fleischmann family.

Art expert fired after Chinese vase he valued at $1,950 sells for $8 million The vase belonged to the seller's grandmother and the family used to keep flowers in it.

The Chinese vase originally valued at just under $2,000 sold at auction for nearly $8 million.

According to The Guardian, the story has cost one of the auctioneer’s experts his job, after a Chinese vase he declared an ordinary decorative piece worth €2,000 (£1,750) at most sold for ...

The vase, which was described as "quite ordinary" by the Osenat auction house in France, was expected to sell for about €2,000 (around $1,952), according to The Guardian.

A Chinese tianqiuping vase (celestial sphere vase) has just shocked the auction house world by selling close to 4,000 times its estimated high. The traditional blue-white vase was expected to ...

An “ordinary” Chinese vase, valued at less than $2,000 by experts, has just fetched $7.5 million in an auction.

A Chinese vase expected to fetch €1,500-€2,000 (around $1,470-$1,960) at auction has sold for more than €9 million ($8.8 million) after a bidding war between collectors.