A world record for Chinese ceramics was set when a Ru brush washer from the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) sold for HK $294 million (US $37.7 million) at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on October 3, 2017.
“Of the 87 heirloom Ru wares to have survived to this day, only four remain in private hands, among them the brush pot we will be offering in Hong Kong on October 3,” says Nicolas Chow, deputy ...
A porcelain bowl a couple kept on their sideboard for years has sold for almost £400,000 after it turned out to be a 900-year-old Chinese relic. The unmarked 5ins tall censer bowl was put to one side ...
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 ...
The Ru kiln located in Linru County of Central China's Henan Province represented another major celadon school that rose in northern China in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Ru Kiln refers to a ...
The Dresden State Art Collections in Germany recently discovered that a 900-year-old rare Chinese Ru ware porcelain bowl had been wrongly thought to have been made in Korea between the 10th to 13th ...
A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty has sold at auction in Hong Kong for almost US$38m (£28m) - a record for Chinese porcelain. Sotheby's, the auction house, said the rare Ru-ware ...
The Dresden State Art Collections in Germany recently discovered that a 900-year-old rare Chinese Ru ware porcelain bowl had been wrongly thought to have been made in Korea between the 10th to 13th ...