Details
RARE COUPE EN CORNE DE RHINOCEROS SCULPTEE
CHINE, FIN DE LA DYNASTIE MING-DEBUT DE LA DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME SIECLE
Finement sculptée en forme de melon, les lobes du fruit traités avec réalisme, rattaché à une tige tortueuse agrémentée de feuilles, l'intérieur non décoré simulant également l'aspect godronné de la peau du fruit, boîte
Longueur: 10 cm. (4 in.)
Provenance
Ruth Dreyfus
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, previously sold at Christie's New York, 1 December 1994, lot 24
Mrs. Angela Chua
The Songzhutang Collection
Literature
T. Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 156, no. 105
Exhibited
Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 1997-2005
Special notice
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Further details
A FINE AND RARE SMALL MELON-FORM RHINOCEROS HORN CUP
CHINA, LATE MING/EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
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