It's the dream of any antique collector: You impulsively spend a few bucks on a trinket at an estate sale or an antiques store, and later discover that it's worth more than what you paid for it. Much ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — A rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a New York home has sold for $1.3 million at auction. The blue and white moon flask was auctioned Wednesday at Sotheby’s ...

PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A federal judge has ushered forward litigation over a rare Ming vase whose fate is uncertain after an auction house says it had to cancel a sale with a Chinese national. Billing ...

The vase was recovered in a sting operation two years later when officers posed as buyers offering £450,000. A Chinese Ming Dynasty vase stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva, ...

LONDONLONDON — British police say they have recovered a 15th-century Chinese vase valued at 2.5 million pounds ($3.3 million) that was stolen in Switzerland last year. The Metropolitan Police force ...

Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn paid $10.1 million Tuesday for a Chinese vase from the Ming dynasty, the highest price paid for porcelain from that period. The pear-shaped vase is decorated with a ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A prominent old world collection of imperial ceramics fetched $72 million at a Sotheby's Hong Kong sale on Wednesday, with an early Ming cobalt blue Meiping vase going for a ...

This undated photo provided by Sotheby's shows a rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a Long Island home. The blue and white moonflask was auctioned Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 at ...

LONDON >> British police say they have recovered a 15th-century Chinese vase valued at 2.5 million pounds ($3.3 million) that was stolen in Switzerland last year. The Metropolitan Police force said ...

NEW YORK - A rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a New York home has sold for $1.3 million at auction. The blue and white moon flask was auctioned Wednesday at Sotheby's sale of ...

This undated photo provided by Sotheby's shows a rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a Long Island home. AP A rare Ming Dynasty vase that had been used as a doorstop in a Long ...