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 cooling down.

This Chinese vase ended up selling for way more than expected. 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 ...

The find of a lifetime has turned into an even bigger pot of gold than expected. Initially expected to sell for approximately $100,000, a rare Chinese vase that was made for the 18th-century Qianlong ...

A small Chinese vase that was valued at £10,000 to £15,000 has today sold at auction - for almost £1 million. The extremely rare 18th Century ornament, made for a Chinese emperor, was brought to ...

When it comes to finding hidden treasure, here's proof that the attic is a great place to start. An 18th century Chinese vase that was discovered by chance in a shoebox in the attic of a French family ...

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 ...

Talk about the find of a lifetime. A vase that was purchased for 1 British pound ($1.21) could be worth nearly $100,000 (80,000 British pounds) after it was revealed that the vase was made for the ...

A long-forgotten Chinese vase, once sold at auction for just £44 ($56), went under the hammer for over 70 million Hong Kong dollars ($9 million) on Saturday after being discovered in an elderly ...

A cracked Chinese vase that was delivered by its elderly owner to an auction house in a battered cardboard box has sold for a whopping £120,000. The man, aged in his 80s, had inherited the 11in ...

PARIS — An 18th-century Chinese vase found in a shoebox in an attic in France sold for $19 million at auction in Paris on Tuesday. The price was more than 20 times the estimate of $590,000 to $825,000 ...

"The view of an expert can't outweigh that of 300 people," said Jean-Pierre Osenat, president of the Osenat auction house This Chinese vase ended up selling for way more than expected. The vase, which ...