**AN UNUSUAL SMALL RHINOCEROS HORN TRIPOD VESSEL, DING

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**AN UNUSUAL SMALL RHINOCEROS HORN TRIPOD VESSEL, DING
18TH CENTURY OR LATER

The shallow bowl-shaped body carved in low-relief with an archaistic band resembling taotie divided by three flanges carved with the characters tian, tu and shui (heaven, earth and water) below two simple handles rising from the rim cut with key pattern, with a seal mark, Yuan Jun Ming, carved on the underside of the bowl between the tops of the three long, slender, splayed legs headed with animal masks
4 1/8in. (10.5cm.) high

拍品專文

A rhinoceros horn vessel of this form from the Chester Beatty Collection, Dublin, is illustrated by Jan Chapman in two articles in Arts of Asia, one in May-June, 1982, "The Chester Beatty Collection of Chinese Carved Rhinoceros Cups", p. 82, front cover illustration; the other in July-August, 1982, "The Use of Manipulation in Chinese Rhinoceros Horn Cups", p. 102, fig. 2
A rhinoceros horn ding of darker color sold in these rooms June 1, 1990, lot 80