The pot was purchased by the noted Taiwan collector Hsu Yu-hai for a huge sum of money and returned to China in recent years.

The scroll "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix"

The 7-meter painting scroll "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix " is a masterpiece of Qing dynasty painter Shen Quan, who distinguished himself for his flower-and-bird painting works. It's a piece of meticulous painting creation with fine, delicate strokes in dark ink and rich colors. In this painting, there are approximately 300 lively birds, such as phoenixes, peacocks and golden pheasant, all with beautiful feathers against a backdrop with Chinese parasol trees, willows and peach trees.

The painting master Shen Quan used to be invited to Japan to share his superb painting skills. Immediately upon his return, Shen Quan did the masterpiece "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" with the pigment presented to him by the Japanese emperor.

The scroll was purchased by a curio collector in 1975 at Liulichang in Beijing, at the cost of 180 yuan, which was relatively expensive at that time.

The Chinese chess manual scripts "Deep Pool, Infinite Sea"

The Qing Dynasty (Chinese) chess manual scripts represent a huge collection of the cream of ancient chess games and well-known, knotty chess games collected and sorted out by author Chen Wenqian for 17 consecutive years, and he finally completed the copying in 1808. The entire work is divided into 16 volumes with a total of 371 famous chess games. But to date, there is one work only extant, as Chen was too poor to have it printed at that time.

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