Before you drop that china off at the thrift store, take a sec to flip it over and give it a closer look. Knowing how to spot valuable antique china marks and identify the patterns you have can mean ...

Here's the thing about antique china. Most people assume those dusty old plates stacked in Grandma's cabinet are just sentimental keepsakes.Others quietly know better. Across estate sales and auction ...

From gifts and family heirlooms to estate sale finds, our collectors have given us a wonderfully varied group of treasures to review this month, ranging in value up from a pressed glass oil lamp and ...

Almost everything in the nature, like clouds, flowers and sea waves, or even things that do not exist in reality such as mythical dragons, phoenixes and qilin (Chinese unicorn) inspired the ancestors ...

Wander around the Chinese porcelain section of any museum and you'll most likely only notice the aesthetics of the pieces, from the familiar blue and white pattern of a curvaceous Ming vase to the ...

Decorated with cobalt blue pigment on a white ceramic body, qinghuaci ware is one of the most well-known cultural products in China, with items made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, considered the ...

CHINESE PORCELAIN has been achieving startlingly high prices at auctions in Ireland and overseas in recent years. The reason? Newly wealthy Chinese collectors are targeting auction houses worldwide to ...

Ever since Grace Young can remember, once a year on Lunar New Year’s Eve in San Francisco her mother would carefully take out her best china to use for the family reunion dinner – a feast including ...