A SILVER-GILT-FILIGREE-MOUNTED RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP

PROPERTY OF A DECEASED ESTATE, REMOVED FROM 23 CADOGAN SQUARE, LONDON

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A SILVER-GILT-FILIGREE-MOUNTED RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP
17th/18th century, the mounts possibly late 18th century Indian

The exterior carved with a wide band of stylized birds in thread relief on a leiwen ground under blossoming prunus branches and qilin clambering on the strap handle each extending over the rim, the key-fret band at the rim repeated at the interior, of light honey colour at the exterior and reddish-brown at the interior, mounted with high metal foot and two C-scroll handles, rim crack restored and small extremity chips, one handle of mount damaged
6¾in. (17.5cm.) long

Lot Essay

Cf. the rhinoceros horn cup similarly mounted with silver filigree foot in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and illustrated by S. Jenyns, The Chinese Rhinoceros and Chinese Carvings in Rhinoceros Horn, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol.29, pl.23, fig.B; also the cup with a Persian 16th Century cover and Dutch mount of the same period, ibid., pl.23, fig.A which is in the Hapsburg Collection, Castle Ambras, The Tyrol

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