Chinese dealers prowling Japan for treasures dating back to the Ming dynasty. TOKYO Feb. 25, 2011 — -- The booming Chinese economy has launched a global treasure hunt by Chinese antique ...

Items on display in an antique shop in Japan in 2006. Photo: CFP Chinese collectors visit an antique shop in Japan in 2006. Photo: CFP Considering the influence traditional Chinese culture has had on ...

A collection of Chinese cups carved from rhinoceros horns has become the most valuable find in the 16-year history of the television program "Antiques Roadshow" in the United States. A collection of ...

The eighth annual edition of the Global Chinese Art Auction Market Report, a partnership between Artnet and the China Association of Auctioneers (CAA), shows that global auction sales of Chinese art ...

More than 30 ancient gold ornaments went on show in a Chinese museum this week after Paris quietly insisted that a billionaire collector and France’s top antique dealer return them on the grounds they ...

Silk Road Landscape, a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) painting, was just returned to China’s Palace Museum after being kept over 70 years in a private Japanese museum. It maps 211 coordinates on the Silk ...

Two rare Chinese antiques more than 300 years old and part of a family collection in East Sussex have been sold for a combined £135,500. The vase and wine pitcher were from the reign of the Kangxi ...

In the 17th and 18th centuries during the Qing Dynasty, China enjoyed relative economic and political stability. As the merchant class grew, the production of furniture flourished, its forms ...

Fifteen Chinese antiques were stolen from The British Museum on 29 October, and this was the second robbery of Chinese antiques in world famous museum within the month. The Special Fund for Saving ...