Lot 3007. A fine Shiwan-ware boat-shaped tea plate, chachuan, Qing dynasty, 18th century; 17.7 cm., 7 in. Estimate 50,000 — 70,000 HKD. Lot sold 75,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's

finely modelled in the form of a flat-bottomed boat, with a two-chined hull gently rising at the ends, supported on a low rounded rectangular footring, covered overall in a fine grey-blue crackled glaze transmuting to a brown glaze towards the rim and along the edges on the underside in imitation of Song dynasty guan ware, save for the footring left unglazed and dressed in a dark brown wash, wood stand.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3rd May 1994, lot 113.