Lot Essay
The inscription is a reference to the Yueyang Pavilion.
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18TH CENTURY
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**A WELL-CARVED LANDSCAPE RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP
18th Century
Carved in high relief with a continuous scene of figures in a boat amidst wind-tossed waves overlooked by a walled pavilion on a promontory of land, all surrounded by trees and rocks with large outcroppings of rocks and gnarled pine branches forming the handle at one end and continuing onto the interior across from a wutong branch, with a four-character inscription, Yueyang Da Guan, and a seal carved on the rock face of the handle, of dark reddish-brown tone
6in. (17.1cm.) long
18th Century
Carved in high relief with a continuous scene of figures in a boat amidst wind-tossed waves overlooked by a walled pavilion on a promontory of land, all surrounded by trees and rocks with large outcroppings of rocks and gnarled pine branches forming the handle at one end and continuing onto the interior across from a wutong branch, with a four-character inscription, Yueyang Da Guan, and a seal carved on the rock face of the handle, of dark reddish-brown tone
6in. (17.1cm.) long