The Ruyao Washer, an extremely rare Chinese porcelain bowl, fetched nearly $27 million -- smashing pre-sale estimates by about three times -- at a hotly anticipated Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong on ...

A 900-year-old Chinese bowl has sold at an auction for nearly $27 million on Wednesday. The extremely rare item was only expected to receive a winning bid of about one-third the eventual total during ...

It’s a sum fit for an emperor. A Chinese porcelain bowl from the 1400s that was found last year at a Connecticut yard sale was sold Wednesday for nearly $722,000. The bowl was sold through Sotheby’s, ...

Q: Any info on my three Chinese porcelain bowls? The marks show they are from the Guangdong porcelain factory, 1875-1916. They are floral garden style, in very fine condition. A: Readers have really ...

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I saw a beautiful antique Chinese porcelain bowl at an auction. It was blue and white with painted dragons, and it had an unusual shape — rounded with a flared rim. The description called it a “zhadou ...

Westerners are very particular about courtesy when dining, eating dishes in a fixed order. Even the manner of placing tableware is restricted. Chinese are much easier at the table, and all they use ...

A recent excavation on Mount Zion in Jerusalem unearthed a fragment of a 16th-century Chinese porcelain bowl with “the earliest known Chinese inscription in Israel,” the Israel Antiquities Authority ...

In a tale the stuff of yard-sale legend, a small porcelain bowl sold at its $35 asking price has turned out to be a rare, 15th-century Chinese artifact worth up to half a million dollars. An ...

A 6-inch Chinese porcelain bowl that was bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale was sold at auction Wednesday for a staggering $721,800, which includes a buyer’s premium. It was expected to fetch ...