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Lot 455Y

A rhinoceros horn libation cup
17th/18th century

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £60,000 inc. premium

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A rhinoceros horn libation cup

17th/18th century
The tapering cup carved in high relief around the sides and base with gnarled pine branches, some extending over the rim into the interior, with a larger, twisted branch forming the loop handle, carved wood stand.
13.5cm (5½in) (2).

Footnotes

Provenance: according to the family, purchased by Paul Lauder in Asia circa 1934, and thence by descent

Compare a related rhinoceros horn cup well carved with gnarled pine branches and needles, from the Thomas Fok collection, New York, illustrated in J.Chapman, The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, London, 1999, pl.152.

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