The vase is thought to have left China about 150 years ago A vase found in a house clearance in London has been sold for £43m, thought to be a record for any Chinese artwork. The 18th Century Qianlong ...

The latest Dezeen competition offers readers the chance to win one of 10 vases by British designer Jack Laverick. This competition is now closed. Congratulations to the winners, which are Jodie Green ...

The man most often credited as the original creator of European porcelain was a German by the name of Johann Friedrich Böttger. He was an alchemist—he said that he knew how to turn lead into gold.

The David Vases are the best-known porcelain vases in the world because of the rare inscriptions around their necks, dating them to precisely AD 1351. When first discovered they were believed to be ...

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has dismissed suggestions that his recent ceramic sculptures were inspired by the work of the Berlin-based Lebanese artist Raed Yassin. Yassin says he was alerted to the ...

The artwork’s last owner purchased it for just a few hundred pounds. Photo courtesy of Dreweatts When Mark Newstead first saw the blue-and-gold porcelain vase sitting in his friend’s kitchen in the ...