Various ancient porcelains and woodblock paintings on display transformed Prince Kung's Palace Museum into a vibrant hub of ...
The 32-year-old artist, who has spent the past three years in Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, China's "porcelain capital", ...
In the 1970s, a working-class British couple brought the vase to 'Going for a Song', where it was evaluated as a fake by an expert.
The Qianlong-dynasty vase has had a chequered history from imperial looting to BBC cameos (Picture: PA) The show originally ran from 1965 to 1977 (Picture: BBC) According to experts at the time ...
Through careful research and expert verification, the piece was confirmed to be an authentic artefact, created around 1740 during the reign of Qianlong, the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty. Experts ...
The Qianlong Vase, likely looted by British and French soldiers from a Peking imperial palace during the Second Opium War, was initially estimated to fetch £1million. However, as bidding ...
A vase initially dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as a "very clever reproduction" fetched an eye-watering £53million after languishing in an attic for four decades. Back in the 1970s ...