A Chinese vase discovered during a house clearance in London sold for a record $69 million (43 million pounds) at auction, a world record for a piece of Asian art. Video courtesy of Reuters.

This geometric harmony was just the beginning. The vase's rim is adorned with a fine band of interlocking motifs — wisps of ...

Designers fill houses with Asian artifacts ... Bronze usubata vases are typically unpainted and unpolished but will often include raised designs of dragons, flowers or other cultural imagery.

From various archive sources and rigorous examination of the inscriptions, Lane identified the vase in Dublin as the first credibly documented piece of Chinese porcelain in Europe. We need your ...