Lot Essay
This very finely carved horn can be related to two other signed examples, the first one, from the Qing Court Collection, by Hu Xingyue dated late Ming and illustrated in Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, The Complete Collection of Treasures of The Palace Museum, Hong Kong 2002, pl.134 ; the second one in Thomas Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong 1999, pl.28