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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF RUTH PHILIPS
**AN ARCHAISTIC RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP
17TH/18TH CENTURY
Details
**AN ARCHAISTIC RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The sides carved in low relief with a band of taotie masks, the handle at one end formed by gnarled, flowering branches of prunus that spread onto the sides and over the rim, raised on a separately made pedestal foot carved in intaglio with continuous lotus scroll, of deep honey color
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The sides carved in low relief with a band of taotie masks, the handle at one end formed by gnarled, flowering branches of prunus that spread onto the sides and over the rim, raised on a separately made pedestal foot carved in intaglio with continuous lotus scroll, of deep honey color
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Collection of Professor Norman Collie.
Exhibited
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1915, Case B, no. 13.