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The Specialist | The Chicken Cup: Mankind’s Most Faked Object, with Nicolas Chow

The Specialist | The Chicken Cup: Mankind’s Most Faked Object, with Nicolas Chow

Update: 2025-06-24
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This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best.


On today’s episode, the story of the Ming dynasty Chicken Cup, one of the most iconic objects in Chinese ceramics, which has followed Nicolas Chow, Chairman, Sotheby’s Asia and Head of Asian Art Worldwide, throughout his career and family ancestry.


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The Specialist | The Chicken Cup: Mankind’s Most Faked Object, with Nicolas Chow

The Specialist | The Chicken Cup: Mankind’s Most Faked Object, with Nicolas Chow

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