Two lots of Ming ware in a recent sale at Doyle, a small New York auctioneer, were wildly bid up, one of them to over 180 times its high estimate.

Her private collection, which will be auctioned at Sotheby's in New York on January 23rd, shows just how much American-related export porcelain she managed to gather together.

And they're setting new records on Ming-era porcelain and Chinese antiquities sold at international auctions.