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 ...

Measuring just 5.125 inches, the 900-year-old dish was listed as “highly important and extremely rare.” It fetched $37.68 million (£29.22 million) at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong after a 20-minute ...

This geometric harmony was just the beginning. The vase's rim is adorned with a fine band of interlocking motifs — wisps of ...

The green Chinese porcelain celadon was tipped to sell for as little as ... A spokesman said: "We now believe the vase is ...

In its early years, the Qing Dynasty had a tea kitchen (for tea with ... Bronze, copper, and porcelain ware were kept for use at any time. The External kitchen prepared the palace banquets ...

Photo taken on June 8, 2022 shows a staff member displaying gene specimens of ceramics from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) at ...

The three Qing Dynasty emperors were avid collectors of ... 18th-century Snowflake Blue Yongzheng Vase was made as imperial porcelain again during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor.

Wondering about the secrets behind a rare porcelain plate, the Dutch collector Ton Letwory found hope in Jingdezhen Ancient ...

Porcelain produced in ... area from the Song to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Numerous architectural components and everyday objects dating from the Song Dynasty to the early 20th century have ...

Narrator: The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty ... Painting, printmaking and porcelain manufacturing thrived. The empire trebled in size and its population grew to over 350 million.

Armed with electron microscopes, Raman spectrometers and an array of precision instruments, researchers are collecting data from each ceramic fragment to methodically build what they call a "genetic ...