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A fine rhinoceros horn cup
17th/18th century
Crisply carved around the leaf-veined flaring bowl on the exterior with long curling leaves and branches of plum blossom, millet and lotus, the handle as two tied stalks. 14cm (5½in) long
Crisply carved around the leaf-veined flaring bowl on the exterior with long curling leaves and branches of plum blossom, millet and lotus, the handle as two tied stalks. 14cm (5½in) long
Estimate:
£100,000 - 150,000
CNY 930,000 - 1.4 million
HK$ 1.2 million - 1.8 million
CNY 930,000 - 1.4 million
HK$ 1.2 million - 1.8 million
Footnotes
- 十七/十八世紀 犀角雕花卉紋杯
The United Kingdom Government has recently imposed an almost complete prohibition on granting a license to permit the export of worked antique rhinoceros horn from the UK to any destination outside the European Union. Please check with the department for further details.
Compare a related rhinoceros horn 'lotus and fish' libation cup, 17th century, similarly carved with the lotus stalks forming the handle at the side of the curling and flaring lotus leaf cup, illustrated by T.Fok in Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.93.
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