Created more than five centuries apart, an imperial Chinese porcelain dish and a painting by Mark Rothko—unexpectedly brought together in visual dialogue—reveal the immensity of the color red. The ...

A Shanghai collector bought a rare Ming Dynasty cup touted as the "holy grail" of China's art world for $36 million at a Hong Kong auction on Tuesday, smashing the world record price for Chinese ...

HONG KONG – A Shanghai collector paid a record $36 million Tuesday for a rare Ming Dynasty cup that's touted as the "holy grail" of China's art world. Several records have been set at Sotheby's spring ...

WYOMING — A little bit of Imperial China is up for grabs in West Michigan this week. Starting today, a collection of porcelain Ming and Qing Dynasty artifacts salvaged about 20 years ago from a ...

Dish with copper-red glaze, and a Xuande mark in cobalt oxide on the base, China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen Ming Dynasty, Xuande reign (1426-1435) Freer Gallery of Art Imagine an exhibition with ...

The porcelain artifacts came from various kinds of kilns, experts said. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage via the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ...

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Chinese archaeologists have found an ancient sunken ship in the South China Sea laden with Ming Dynasty porcelain, the Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. Divers used satellite navigation equipment ...

A 500-year-old cup, which measures only eight centimeters (3.1 in) and is daintily decorated with images of hens and chicks, was purchased by Shanghai collector Liu Yiqian for $36.3 million during an ...

A porcelain cup known as a "chicken cup" because of its decorations fetched $36 million at a Sotherby's auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday. The buyer was Shanghai billionaire Liu Yiqian. [Li Peng/Xinhua] ...

A small Ming dynasty-era bowl dubbed the "chicken cup" sold for 281.2 million Hong Kong dollars (US$36.3 million) at a Sotheby's sale in Hong Kong on Tuesday, setting a record for the most expensive ...