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Lot Essay
A similar example signed by the maker Zhi Sheng sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 27 May 2008, lot 1716.
The carving on the cup is exceptional in its superb quality, naturalistic detail and subject-matter. A related rhinoceros horn waterdropper with a very similar composition of lotus leaves and insects in the Shanghai Museum collection, bearing a 'You Kan' sealmark within a square, is illustrated by T. Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 151, no.101. A similar example without a mark from the Ruth Dreyfus and Arthur M. Sackler Collections was sold in our New York rooms, 1 December 1994, lot 38.
The carving on the cup is exceptional in its superb quality, naturalistic detail and subject-matter. A related rhinoceros horn waterdropper with a very similar composition of lotus leaves and insects in the Shanghai Museum collection, bearing a 'You Kan' sealmark within a square, is illustrated by T. Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 151, no.101. A similar example without a mark from the Ruth Dreyfus and Arthur M. Sackler Collections was sold in our New York rooms, 1 December 1994, lot 38.