The exhibit attempts to trace the porcelain to Jamestown through personal chests of merchants and mariners of trading ...

Pottery making got off to an ancient, icy start in East Asia. Pieces of ceramic containers found in a Chinese cave date to between 19,000 and 20,000 years ago, making these finds from the peak of the ...

China hasn’t always been trying to catch up with the West. Gunpowder, the compass, paper and movable type: The Chinese are famous for inventing them all. A little less well known is that the Chinese ...

Bonhams New York is offering a host of delicate treasures in its “Cohen & Cohen: 50 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain” live auction on January 24. “One lovely aspect of the European lady figure is ...

WASHINGTON -- Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people. The find in Yuchanyan Cave dates to as much as 18,000 ...

The auction room – standing room only – broke into applause when the hammer finally went down. On sale was a tiny, white cup decorated with chickens, and the buyer was a prolific art collector from ...

Two 18th-century Chinese vases have sold for £260,000 or roughly $327,000 at an auction at Nesbits. They belonged to a “working class” vendor in his late 30s, who found them while clearing out his ...