antique

As China's investment-minded collectors push the prices of Asian antiques sky-high, Chinese porcelain takes its place among the world's most expensive luxury items. Read More

Stamp collection is more than just your grandfather's hobby in China, where rare stamps can command huge sums of money. Read More

With many of China's wealthy elite turning away from public displays of wealth and enjoying high-priced toys within the privacy of their own homes, new status symbols like antique cars and grand pianos are joining the ranks of popular stealth buys like wine, art, cigars and watches. Read More

Running for its seventh year, Fine Art Asia 2011 will once again bring its combination of contemporary and antique, East and West, to Hong Kong from October 3-7. Read More

Over this past weekend, both Sotheby's and Christie's saw strong results at a sprawling set of auctions in New York, as a relatively new set of buyers in the city crushed estimates to get their hands on important jade carvings, antique furniture, and bronze artifacts. Read More

Since its founding in 2006, the fair's timing has coincided with Hong Kong's autumn auction season, making the city Asia's main cultural hub during the first week of October. Read More

Asian Art Week is soon to hit New York City, and with the increased activity seen in the auction world over the past 18 months among new collectors from emerging countries like China, India, Indonesia and elsewhere, these collectors should loom large at some of the upcoming sales. Read More