CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME-XVIIIEME SIECLE

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COUPE LIBATOIRE EN CORNE DE RHINOCEROS SCULPTEE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME-XVIIIEME SIECLE
Très finement sculptée sur tout l'extérieur d'un paysage de rochers entre lesquels serpente un torrent et où s'accrochent divers arbres et pins dont les troncs de deux d'entre eux forment l'anse, la partie supérieure de la coupe ornée de nuages, le décor continuant en s'estompant sur l'intérieur de la corne
Hauteur: 11,7 cm. (4 5/8 in.), Longueur: 17,8 cm. (7 in.)

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A VERY FINELY CARVED RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

The rhinoceros horn is considered as one of the 'Eight Precious' symbols. It was known to the Chinese for its power to detect poison which resulted in the creation of these specific food and drink vessels.
The quality of carving of this horn is exquisite and three-dimensional. Some very nice and close examples of such rhinoceros horns with landscapes and figure motives can be found on Thomas Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong 1999, pls. 131 and 167. These two examples have similar landscape patterns and also the same trunks of pine trees powerfully modeled and rising over the rim into the cup.

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