On a windswept stretch of Egypt’s southeastern coast, near the disputed border town of Halaib, archaeologists sifting through ...

For more than 1,000 years, Chinese porcelain has enchanted the world. Its exacting craftsmanship and exceeding beauty have made it a touchstone of Asian culture. While westerners have long found it ...

Bonhams New York is offering a host of delicate treasures in its “Cohen & Cohen: 50 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain” live auction on January 24. “One lovely aspect of the European lady figure is ...

Trawling the seabed near the south coast of Vietnam in 1989, a Vietnamese fisherman stumbled upon the remains of the wreck of a ship that was traveling from China to Jakarta when it sunk some three ...

China hasn’t always been trying to catch up with the West. Gunpowder, the compass, paper and movable type: The Chinese are famous for inventing them all. A little less well known is that the Chinese ...

Photo taken on Oct 2, 2020 shows an exhibition of Chinese porcelain at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. A nearly 12,000-piece collection of Chinese porcelain is on display in the Topkapi ...

Items acquired by Lancashire collector Roger Pilkington span 1,000 years of production from Tang through to Ming and Qing dynasties One of the finest collections of Chinese porcelain ever assembled is ...

1. A Ming blue and white "dragon" jar with Xuande reign mark, HK$158 million [Photo provided to China Daily] As more Chinese buyers participate in the Chinese porcelain world market, their tastes are ...

16th-century Chinese potters in Jingdezhen made the finest porcelain, a magical material never seen before. Only they knew the production process - a closely guarded secret. But over time Dutch ...