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拍品專文
The rhino horn is considered as one of the 'Eight Precious' symbols. It was known to the Chinese for its power to detect poison which resulted in the creation of these specific food and drink vessels.
Some very nice and close examples of such rhinoceros horns with landscapes and figure motives can be found on T. Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong 1999, pls. 131, 164 and 167. These three examples have similar landscape patterns and also the same trunks of pine trees powerfully modeled and rising over the rim into the cup.
Another rhinoceros horn from the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, Hong Kong 2002, pp.170-171, pl.147
Some very nice and close examples of such rhinoceros horns with landscapes and figure motives can be found on T. Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong 1999, pls. 131, 164 and 167. These three examples have similar landscape patterns and also the same trunks of pine trees powerfully modeled and rising over the rim into the cup.
Another rhinoceros horn from the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, Hong Kong 2002, pp.170-171, pl.147