Porcelain

Keys and phones, unsurprisingly, are the most common items left behind after customers hail a ride

In what that sounds like the plot of a thriller, an iPad thrown into London's River Thames spent more than...

John Mickinak began attending antique auctions with his mother when he was 12. As a 70-year-old, the Greensburg man is a full-time antiques dealer and appraiser. While he's made a career out of his passion, Mickinak said he's watched his line of work lose the interest of younger generations over

A family's set of dishes has passed through five generations of women, but will the teacups, plates and bowls make it to a sixth?

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Oever, the California-based culture and media company that is committed to celebrating and advancing Chinese cultural legacy and heritage...

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A science photo book probes the colors we can see—and even "forbidden" colors we can't

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Han Zhang on China's bubble-tea revolution and the country's new generation of milk-tea chains that sell not only beverages but also imagined worlds.

His car laden with boxes of brightly-colored communist memorabilia, Feng Gang places one more Chairman Mao figurine in the back seat then steps back to admire his life's work.Feng is one of China's leading "red collectors", hoarders of ephemera mass-produced in the country's turbulent first decades ...

An ancient shipwreck lost in deep waters has yielded its first clues: amphorae from a lost age of international trade and civilization

His childlike porcelain characters thrilled and inspired generations of collectors. They also made him a millionaire.

Captured, castrated, and forced to serve the Hongwu Emperor, Zeng He subsequently led a massive Ming fleet of treasure ships across an ever-expanding empire.

Japanese ceramics manufacturer's two centuries of pottery experience help it take the heat out of the latest technology

It's possible to extract yourself from a difficult situation with your dignity intact.

Sitting in a cozy reading room at Grand House in the eastern corner of the Portuguese Algarve surrounded by artifacts from the Belle-Époque era, I felt I'd accidentally stepped through a time portal. For this 26-room

Long before the Sacklers appeared on the scene, families like the Astors, the Peabodys, and the Delanos cemented their upper-crust status through the global trade in opium.

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Add some charm, some calm, and some simple elegance with this decor.

China has invested heavily in an armada of far-flung fishing vessels, in part to extend its global influence, Ian Urbina writes. This maritime expansion has come at grave human cost.