Lot 629. A blue and white 'Chicken Head' ewer, a small 'Lotus' jar and a 'Figure' plate, Ming Dynasty, 16th-17th century; 8.5, 8.8 and 25.2 cm., 3 3/8, 3 1/2 and 9 7/8 in. Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 HKD. Lot sold 21,250 (2,741 USD). Photo Sotheby's

the ewer with a compressed globular body surmounted by a short waisted neck and flared rim, set on one side with a spout shaped as a chicken head, opposite a handle modelled in the form a chicken's tail, decorated around the body with floral scrolls; the jarlet with an ovoid body rising to a short neck, the exterior decorated with leafy floral scrolls; the plate robustly potted with a flat base and flared sides, painted with a central medallion enclosing a standing figure holding a fan, surrounded by beribboned auspicious emblems, the base unglazed.

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