Chicken cup and ʻShi Tao’ landscape scroll turn heads at Lyon & Turnbull
Lyon & Turnbull’s (25% buyer’s premium) Fine Asian Works of Art in London on November 5 featured as its top-estimated lot, a 3in (8cm) diameter doucai ‘chicken cup’.
It has an apocryphal 15th century (Chenghua) mark but was of considerable age – probably made in t…