A PAIR OF EGG-AND-SPINACH GLAZED RHYTON CUPS

KANGXI PERIOD

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A PAIR OF EGG-AND-SPINACH GLAZED RHYTON CUPS
Kangxi period
The drinking cups finely modelled as oxen heads with curving, ridged horns and large eyes with black pupils, wearing slender aubergine trappings over their splash-glazed hides, lucite stands
4.5/8in. (11.8cm.) long (2)

Lot Essay

Animal-head form libation cups were known in ancient Western cultures as well as in Chinese, and eventually evolve in more modern times into the "stirrup cups" handed to mounted foxhunters for a last drink just before they set off to hunt

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