Famille-rose floral medallion bottle vase blue enamel

Price: 111 million yuan

Auction house: Hong Kong Sotheby

This porcelain bottle was originally made in Jingdezhen before being sent to an enamel workshop in the Forbidden City where craftsman painted flowers on it during the Qianlong period (1735-1796). At that time there were a few hundred enamel bottles specially made for the royal family and most are in museum collections.

As the birth place of porcelain, China has created many porcelain treasures in its thousands of years of history.

This April a doucai "chicken cup" from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) fetched 222 million yuan ($36 million), stunning many outsiders. In fact it's not the most expensive porcelain ever auctioned. There are several other pieces that were auctioned at surprisingly higher prices.

Here we list a few "extremely expensive" pieces of porcelain, all of which were auctioned at for over 100 million yuan.

Blue and white Yuan porcelain Guiguzi down

Price: 230 million yuan

Auction house: London Christies

The price equaled two tons of gold that day, setting a record for Chinese artwork auctioned in international auctions. The painting on the pot depicts China’s ancient militarist Guiguzi riding in a carriage pulled by a tiger and a leopard down a mountain to save his student Sun Bin, who was trapped by enemies.