An eagle-eyed thrift-store shopper in Illinois hit the jackpot last year, when he paid a bargain price for a highly valuable ...

GEORGE TOWN: Time changes everything, even the altars for divine worship that have long been an integral part of Straits Chinese (Baba ... here in the mid to late 19th century.

The British forces inflicted a series of military defeats on the Chinese until 1842, when the war was ended with the Treaty ...

Chinese porcelain made its way to the Americas starting in the 16th century through the Manila ... spanning the 18th and 19th centuries," Villaran says. Aside from porcelain, traders moved silk ...

Hunched over a long table, she gently pours tea out of a tiny little tea pot into three equally tiny porcelain ... Malaysia, Chinese tea has a history that dates back to the 15th century when ...

However, various studies suggest that porcelain artifacts were ... vases and other tableware decorated with Chinese motifs." The fragments from 16th-century Esteco are among the oldest pieces ...

In the first half of the 19th century, the British government faced an economic problem. Imports of tea, porcelain and silk ... imbalance was to flood the Chinese market with opium.

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By 1700, global trade was deeply entrenched in colonial expansion, financial innovation, and the increasing demand for luxury and staple goods.

Lisbon’s domed 19th-century market hall ... Look out for priceless Hellenic vases, ancient Chinese porcelain and paintings by Rembrandt, Monet and Van Dyck. Find more of the city's top ...