Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers, in Essex, England, sold a Chinese blue-and-white ceramic jardinière to a Chinese buyer for nearly 200 times its $610 high estimate, bringing the hammer down at nearly ...
A porcelain bowl a couple kept on their sideboard for years has sold for almost £400,000 after it turned out to be a 900-year-old Chinese relic. The unmarked 5ins tall censer bowl was put to one side ...