With fees added on the winning bidder, an Asian private collector, paid £9.7m for the vases. A spokesperson for Sotheby's said: 'The jars are the only complete pair ever to have appeared at auction.
Chinese Robin’s Egg and Famille-Rose Revolving ... setting a new record for the most expensive vase. The Value talks about ...
The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year ...
An 18th Century Chinese vase, left for decades in a shoebox in ... A Sotheby's spokeswoman said: "They knew it had some value but nothing like that, nor that it was from the Qing dynasty." ...
Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation to donate 1,700 pieces of Chinese ceramics to the London museum Vases dating ...