18TH CENTURY

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**A WELL-CARVED RHINOCEROS HORN 'LANDSCAPE' LIBATION CUP
18TH CENTURY
The sides finely carved with an extensive river landscape, on one side figures are shown steering a sampan through wind-tossed waves while a scholar is seen walking across a bridge at the base, on the reverse another scholar is shown standing outside a walled compound, all surrounded by rock formations and trees and with three different trees, including a pine, forming the handle at one end, the boughs of the pine tree continuing over the rim, of deep honey color
6 in. (15.3 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

The scene depicted on the present cup is inspired by the 17th Century artist Wang Shiyi's landscape painting, Yueyang Daguantu, (Scene of Yueyang Pavilion).
A rhinoceros horn cup carved with the same scene is illustrated by T. Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 205, no. 149.

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