Chicken cup sets new record at £21.5m
A new auction high for Chinese porcelain was set last week when Sotheby’s sold a tiny Chenghua period ‘chicken cup’ for a hammer price of HK$250m (£21.5m) as part of their latest Hong Kong sale series.
This beats the previous high of HK$225m (then £18.2m) paid in the same rooms three years ago for a …