Chicken-Head Kettle is a kettle with a cover over its spout that looks like a chicken's head. The black-glazed Chicken-Head Kettle of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420), unearthed in Deqing County of East China's Zhejiang Province, is the most representative one, reflecting the great achievements of china firing and decoration techniques.

The black-glazed Chicken-Head Kettle is 17 cm in height with a caliber of 7 cm in diameter. The kettle is endowed with a very thin bottleneck, a round body and a flat bottom. On one shoulder of the kettle there is a spout in shape of a chicken's head and on the other shoulder is an arc handle connecting the mouth and the shoulder. The whole body of the kettle was glazed blue in great thickness and the glaze color is uniform and pure. The luster of the jet-black produces the artistic effects of lacquer ware. The kettle is now displayed in the Beijing Palace Museum.

Chicken-Head Kettles first appeared in the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316) and were initiated by the Yue Kiln in Zhejiang Province. By the Eastern Jin period (317-420), function of the chicken-head part was transformed from decoration to practical use. The chicken head could communicate with the kettle body and became the spout. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Chicken-Head Kettles gradually phased out. The Chinese characters "chicken" and "good luck" have the similar pronunciation of Ji . Therefore, the continuous use of Chicken-Head Kettles for hundreds of years reflected people's pray for good luck and peace during those war-ridden chaotic periods.