PARIS — An 18th-century Chinese ... bulb-shaped vase, painted in delicate shades of green, blue, yellow and purple, was described as an exceptionally well-preserved porcelain vessel made for ...

Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry ... and I was like, "Wow. I like that vase." I'm like, "How much?" She said, "$25." And I was like, "Okay, would you take $20?" ...

Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by ... She called this a double gourd vase, she was quite sure was Chinese-- that's all I know. APPRAISER: Well, I think your mom did a great job.

An Antiques Roadshow ... the history of the porcelain piece, noting that while it was Chinese, it was inspired by Middle Eastern shapes. "In the early Ming dynasty the Emperor wanted his kilns to ...

A prized Chinese vase which dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as merely a 'clever ... Yet it went on to become the most ...

Described by Sotheby’s as a “technical tour-de-force,” the pear-shaped vase is an example of a style of porcelain known ... number of other big-ticket Chinese antiques up for sale over ...

This article includes a summary of the different vase shapes for Chinese porcelain vases to help turn the novice Antiques collector into an expert! Meiping, literally meaning “plum vase,” was ...

A recent episode of the classic BBC show saw ceramics specialist John Axford looking at a pair of vases the guest had brought along for the Antiques ... of is Chinese transitional porcelain ...

The vase is thought to have left China ... thought to be a record for any Chinese artwork. The 18th Century Qianlong porcelain piece, found in Pinner, had been estimated to fetch up to £1.2m ...