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** A PAIR OF LARGE RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION VESSELS
19TH CENTURY
The lower section of each carved and pierced with a network of blossoming peach, pine and possibly aster issuing from the mouths of dragons with partial scaly bodies carved at the tip, the upper section depicting two figures on horseback on rocky ledges, both with attendants holding canopies amidst further pine, bamboo and prunus, all below a band of clouds at the rim, the horn of pale honey-brown tone (some damage and polish)
17½ and 15½in. (44.3 and 39.3cm.) high, elaborate wood stands carved as pine and lingzhi sprouting amidst rockwork (2)
19TH CENTURY
The lower section of each carved and pierced with a network of blossoming peach, pine and possibly aster issuing from the mouths of dragons with partial scaly bodies carved at the tip, the upper section depicting two figures on horseback on rocky ledges, both with attendants holding canopies amidst further pine, bamboo and prunus, all below a band of clouds at the rim, the horn of pale honey-brown tone (some damage and polish)
17½ and 15½in. (44.3 and 39.3cm.) high, elaborate wood stands carved as pine and lingzhi sprouting amidst rockwork (2)