There were rare porcelains, fabulous tapestries, which might by clever alteration be changed to pass as other specimens that were known to exist.

He regularly gave parties in his Upper East Side town house, which was filled with rare porcelains.

About 75 departments of the company now hold auctions in areas ranging from paperweights and rare porcelains to old master and Impressionist paintings.

The ladies made much of Hay, who was pleased to be treated like a piece of rare porcelain from an earlier time.

Stoneware was common, ceramic more frequent, mostly made in provincial kilns, with porcelain rare, imperial porcelain with dragons the rarest.

As art dealer Jonathan Paget, he handled Sean Donely's purchase of some rare Chinese porcelain, the Wellington Collection.

Some of China's rarest porcelains stand nearby, notably three specimens of Ju ware, with their sotto-voce crackling and succulent dove's-egg tint.

"You make me sound like a piece of rare porcelain."

The Baroness filled the mansion with antique furniture, Old Master paintings, sculptures, objets d'art, and assembled an extensive collection of rare porcelain.

She glanced up at the elegantly dressed man, who seemed so oblivious to the loss of a piece of rare porcelain.