"The view of an expert can't outweigh that of 300 people," said Jean-Pierre Osenat, president of the Osenat auction house This Chinese vase ended up selling for way more than expected. The vase, which ...

A Chinese vase described as “quite ordinary” turned out to be anything but after selling for almost 4,000 times its estimated value over the weekend. Originally expected to fetch between 1,500 and ...

A Dutch art dealer realized the vase's significance after appraising an elderly European woman's collection. Courtesy of Sotheby's Porcelain vases and roaming pets can be a precarious combination.

Experts valued it at just €2,000. But the seemingly run-of-the-mill vase has just sold at auction in France for nearly €7.7 million (about $7.5 million), with a bidding frenzy propelling it to nearly ...