Nicolas Chow, Sotheby’s Asia Deputy Chairman, holds the Chinese Song Dynasty ceramics Ruyao Washer at the Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong Wednesday, April 4, 2012. The 900-year-old dish smashed the ...

After a spirited 20-minute bidding war, a Song Dynasty Ru ware brush washer sold to an anonymous collector at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on October 3 for $37.7 million, a world record for a Chinese porcelain ...

HONG KONG – A 900-year-old dish has smashed the record for Chinese Song dynasty ceramics sold at auction, fetching $26.7 million. Sotheby’s said Wednesday, April 4, that eight bidders competed for the ...

Pieces include: A persimmon-glazed conical bowl (Northern Song dynasty, 960-1127) -- A persimmon-glazed shouldered jar (Northern Song dynasty, 960-1127 to Jin dynasty, 1115-1234) -- A rare small black ...

The Song dynasty in China (960-1279) is like the Renaissance in Italy, or the Second Empire in France, or the 1960s in America — it was the age when China became Chinese, when all the disparate ...

‘Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Tang to the Song Dynasty’ contains around 60 remarkable examples of iconic ceramic pieces from various well-known ancient kilns. They represent a culmination of ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A nearly 900-year-old porcelain Song dynasty bowl smashed the world auction record for Chinese ceramics on Tuesday, selling for HK$294.3 million (£28.38 million) at a Sotheby's ...

This season, Sotheby’s is delighted to present a group of Song ceramics and its antecedents from the Yang De Tang Collection. The collection comprises 60 pieces spanning a full spectrum of forms, ...

A modern dance performance inspired by a Song Dynasty (960-1279) artifact, a ceramic pillow shaped like a young boy, recently debuted in Baoding, North China's Hebei Province. In the show, the ...

HONG KONGHONG KONG — A 900-year-old dish has smashed the record for Chinese Song dynasty ceramics sold at auction, fetching $26.7 million. Sotheby’s said Wednesday that eight bidders competed for the ...