A delicate porcelain bowl, measuring under 4.5 inches in diameter, sold for more than $25 million during a bumper week of Chinese art sales in Hong Kong. Described by auction house Sotheby’s as ...

The bowl turned out to be from the 1400s and was made in China during the Yongle period of the Ming dynasty. It’s one of only a handful of bowls known to still exist from that period, and it’s ...

An exceptionally rare 15th-century Chinese antique that wound up at a Connecticut yard sale sold for well over its auction estimate during Sotheby’s “Asia Week.” ...

Auctions A 15th-Century Chinese Porcelain Bowl Bought for $35 at a Connecticut Yard Sale Just Sold for Over $700,000 at Auction There are only six other bowls of its kind known to exist.

A set of bowls displayed in a house for decades has made more than £112,000 at auction. The ceramics, stored in a cardboard box before being offered for sale, turned out to be rare Chinese porcelain.

A porcelain bowl left gathering dust in a family kitchen was from the Ming dynasty and has sold for £199,750. Tests showed the blue and white Chinese bowl was made in 1430 in the reign of Xuande.

The two bowls were split up in 1929, when they were each sold for £150 (amounting to just over £7,600, or $9,400, in today’s money). The bowl’s “twin” is held now at the British Museum ...