Lot Essay
For similar horns with such landscapes and waterscapes, see T. Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong 1999, pls.162 and 164. However, there are very few examples of rhinoceros horns with both landscape scene outside and dragons carved inside, the closest one is illustrated by T. Fok, Op. Cit., pl.146. It is carved outside with Scholars in a rocky garden with trees, the inside enhanced with a powerful dragon similar to those of the current vessel
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