From AFP:

Lucky fat ladies, porcelain pigs, ceramic musicians and giant Buddhas are crammed into Hong Kong’s antique boutiques, but some experts, backed by Chinese law, say many of them shouldn’t be here at all.

By a curious twist of history and geopolitics, Hong Kong has become the legitimate outlet for ill-gotten treasures of Chinese history, a legal market for illegally obtained objets d’art that can and do command huge sums.