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A large pair of Chinese rhinoceros horn cups
pierced and deeply carved with flowering lotus and fruiting vine branches issuing from leafy tendrils, the colour of even honey tone, placed on fitted hardwood stands elaborately carved with similar branches -- the cups 33.in and 30.in (84.5cm and 76.8cm) long around the curve, mid 19th Century.
See Colour Plate 54. (2)
pierced and deeply carved with flowering lotus and fruiting vine branches issuing from leafy tendrils, the colour of even honey tone, placed on fitted hardwood stands elaborately carved with similar branches -- the cups 33.in and 30.in (84.5cm and 76.8cm) long around the curve, mid 19th Century.
See Colour Plate 54. (2)