It's the dream of any antique collector: You impulsively spend a few bucks on a trinket at an estate sale or an antiques store, and later discover that it's worth more than what you paid for it. Much ...

HONG KONG: A rare underglaze copper-red Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) vase sold for HK$78.52 million (US$10.13 million) in Hong Kong yesterday, setting a world auction record for Ming porcelain. Theow Tow, ...

This undated photo provided by Sotheby's shows a rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a Long Island home. The blue and white moonflask was auctioned Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 at ...

The vase was recovered in a sting operation two years later when officers posed as buyers offering £450,000. A Chinese Ming Dynasty vase stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva, ...

Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn paid $10.1 million Tuesday for a Chinese vase from the Ming dynasty, the highest price paid for porcelain from that period. The pear-shaped vase is decorated with a ...

Undated handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of a stolen 15th century Chinese Ming Dynasty vase worth GBP 2.5 million which has been recovered by the Metropolitan Police during a Specialist ...

Two British brothers have been sentenced to prison for breaking into a Swiss museum and stealing Chinese Ming Dynasty artifacts worth millions. The stolen items, two Ming Dynasty vases and a cup, ...

Art pottery is made by a single talented artist, a group of designers and artists who share the different steps, or a large company that has expensive machinery, men who make the molds, throw the clay ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A prominent old world collection of imperial ceramics fetched $72 million at a Sotheby's Hong Kong sale on Wednesday, with an early Ming cobalt blue Meiping vase going for a ...

This undated photo provided by Sotheby's shows a rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a Long Island home. AP A rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a Long ...

NEW YORK - A rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a New York home has sold for $1.3 million at auction. The blue and white moon flask was auctioned Wednesday at Sotheby's sale of ...