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Lot 456Y

A fine rhinoceros horn libation cup
17th/18th century

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

Sold for £82,800 inc. premium

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A fine rhinoceros horn libation cup

17th/18th century
Well carved as a large open flower with overlapping petals, the exterior carved with high relief with prunus and magnolia blossoms borne on intertwining branches rising from the openwork base, rising up to form the handle on one side, with a chilong clambering up over the rim and clutching a prunus branch in its jaws, the horn of a rich honey tone.
11.5cm (4½in) wide.

Footnotes

Compare related rhinoceros horn cups finely carved with prunus blossom design, one also with a chilong dragon, illustrated in J.Chapman, The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, London, 1999, pls.200, 214-215 and 315.

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