From gifts and family heirlooms to estate sale finds, our collectors have given us a wonderfully varied group of treasures to review this month, ranging in value up from a pressed glass oil lamp and ...

Two Chinese vases given to a 19th-century British minister who saved a small boy from drowning are set to land his descendants a $150,000 cash payout. The Rev. Samuel Edward Valpy Filleul, an avid ...

Finding key quality pieces at an auction is all about developing your eye for detail, as well as knowing the historical context of the items in question. This is true for furniture, paintings, ...

Chinese porcelains are among the hardest for an average collector to identify and date. They have been made for centuries and it is considered a tribute, not an attempt to fool a customer, to copy a ...

Christie’s in London will offer a pair of Chinese vases as part of its “Christie’s Interiors” sale on January 28. The vases are famille rose—a group of Chinese porcelains painted with shades of opaque ...

NEW YORK, March 28 (UPI) -- The importance of Chinese export porcelain in the homes of the founders of the American republic is a part of a romance retold by a Metropolitan Museum exhibition of ...

Blue-and-white porcelain and famille rose are two iconic varieties from China, renowned for their exquisite underglaze and intricate overglaze patterns. Interestingly, their origins and evolution owe ...

Appraisal: Chinese Enameled Porcelain Vase, ca. 1900, from Corpus Christi Hour 2. Watch Robert Waterhouse's appraisal of a Chinese enameled porcelain vase, ca. 1900, in Corpus Christi Hour 2.

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