17TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL RHINOCEROS HORN TRAVELLING CUP
17TH CENTURY
In the form of a lotus leaf with the coiled stem forming a loop to allow suspension from a belt, the well polished and luminous horn of a warm honey tone with lighter and darker brown veins
4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

It has been suggested that this style of cup could possibly have been suspended from the robes, therfore used as a travelling cup.
Chinese scholar's gardens provided a spiritual utopia for one to connect with nature, these gardens used plants as symbols to represent their frustration with the political problems in China. The lotus is used to symbolize purity and is often associated with scholars.

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