A keen-eyed flea market shopper in Connecticut who bought a delicate blue-and-white porcelain bowl for just $35 is now sitting on a fortune, as the small object goes up for sale at Sotheby’s New ...

An 18th-century imperial porcelain bowl that had remained in private hands sold for HK$198 million (about US$25.4 million) at a Sotheby’s sale of Chinese works of art in Hong Kong over the weekend.

Hidden in plain sight in Brett Whiteley’s Archibald Prize-winning portrait Self Portrait in the studio is a blue and white ceramic vase that gives a hint to the artist’s lesser-known obsessions.