A vast collection of Chinese silver worth £10,000, hidden away in an attic for 80 years, has been discovered by auctioneers.The silver was acquired by a man who worked for the China Navigation Company ...

The stone of heaven, as it is known in China ... Every sale is a gamble. Chunks of ­jadeite—as opposed to the more common nephrite, which is considered an inferior jade—resemble mud ...

A Chinese woman fainted in a jewellery shop after accidentally breaking a jade bracelet priced at $44,000 (£35,000). The tourist from eastern Jiangxi province was trying on the bracelet in a shop ...

including more than 200 ceramic vessels for feasting and jade jewelry." An undated file photo shows an ivory artifact unearthed from a tomb in China's Henan province. Archaeologists believe the ...

Despite the impact of high gold prices, seasonal factors have buoyed a quarter-on-quarter resurgence in gold jewelry demand within the Chinese market from July to September, the World Gold Council ...

At a Neolithic site in northern China, archaeologists have unearthed a large jade dragon inside a 5,000-year-old tomb. The dragon was one of more than 100 artifacts that have been discovered in ...

One of the jade dragons, the size of a palm and emerald green in colour, is the largest of its kind found in northern China, according to Xinhua news agency. These “pig-headed dragons” differ ...

Gold demand in China — the world’s biggest consumer — plunged by more than a fifth in the third quarter as record prices and ...

This is the eighth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...