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 ...

A cracked vase which was kept in a loft and valued at £100 has sold for a staggering £130,000 after it was identified as a rare Ming dynasty treasure. The blue and white 10ins vase was thought by the ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — A sting operation at a London ...

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, May 30 (UPI) -- Las Vegas gambling mogul Steve Wynn Tuesday bought a vase from China's Ming dynasty for a record $10.1 million in a Hong Kong auction. The pear-shaped vase adorned with 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 ...

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 ...