Lot 627. A pottery painted vessel, hu, and a pottery 'Cocoon' jar, Neolithic Period and Han Dynasty;  40 cm., 15 3/4 in. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 HKD. Lot sold 32,500 HKD (4,192   USD). Photo Sotheby's

the largest vessel surmounted by a short circular neck, flanked with a pair of small circular handles, the upper half decorated in a brown glaze with geometric patterns; the 'cocoon'-shaped jar supported on a high splayed foot, set with a neck rising to an everted rim, the pottery of a smooth texture and burnished to a reddish-beige colour; the largest vessel

Property from the Baoyizhai Collection

Sotheby's. Playthings From The Collection of Edward T. Chow Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Collections Chinese Art Through the Eye of Sakamoto Gor - Asian Lacquer. Hong Kong, 27 may 2014