An exceptionally rare 15th-century Chinese antique that wound up at a yard sale has sold for $721,800 at auction by Sotheby’s, exceeding its top estimated sale price of half a million dollars.

It’s a sum fit for an emperor. A Chinese porcelain bowl from the 1400s that was found last year at a Connecticut yard sale was sold Wednesday for nearly $722,000.

Yard-Sale Bowl Revealed As Rare Chinese Artifact Auctioned Off For $721,800. ... Sotheby's experts date the bowl to the era of the Yongle Emperor, who reigned from 1403 to 1424, ...

A small bowl bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale was identified as a 600-year-old Chinese antique and is expected to sell for up to $500,000 at auction. Top News U.S. News ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Shoppers can find treasures at yard sales, but a 15th-century Chinese porcelain bowl discovered at a Connecticut sale last year may be the ultimate prize. The small white bowl ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- An exceptionally rare 15th century porcelain bowl made in China that somehow turned up at a Connecticut yard sale and sold for just $35 was auctioned off Wednesday for nearly ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- An exceptionally rare 15th century porcelain bowl made in China that somehow turned up at a Connecticut yard sale and sold for just $35 was auctioned off Wednesday for nearly ...

Talk about your yard sale finds. A small porcelain bowl bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale turned out to be a rare, 15th century Chinese artifact worth between $300,000 and $500,000.

Presented to the University by more than 1000 Chinese alumni during the Tercentennial celebration in 1936, the monument belonged originally to Emperor Chia Ch'ing, of the Ch'ing dynasty.

An exceptionally rare 15th-century Chinese antique that wound up at a Connecticut yard sale sold for well over its auction estimate during Sotheby’s “Asia Week.” ...