If you want to explore some of the most exquisite pieces of pottery in history, and some of the most expensive vases, we’ll have to go back hundreds of years to the golden age of Chinese ceramics.
The matching pair of Ming dynasty Chinese ... vases. A spokesperson for Sotheby's said: 'The jars are the only complete pair ever to have appeared at auction. 'They are extraordinarily rare.
The blue-glazed, silver and gilt vase was created for the court of the Qianlong Emperor An "extremely rare" 18th Century Chinese vase bought in the 1980s for a few hundred pounds and kept in a kit ...