Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Ming-era ‘chicken cup’ breaks record for Chinese porcelain

HONG KONG, April 8- A rare Ming-era wine cup broke the world auction record for any Chinese porcelain on Tuesday, selling in Hong Kong for $36.05 million to Shanghai tycoon Liu Yiqian, Sotheby’s auction house said. The tiny white porcelain cup, decorated with a colour painting of a rooster and a hen tending to their […]

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