17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A LARGE RHINOCEROS HORN CUP
17TH/18TH CENTURY
Finely carved around the sides with rocks and the spreading boughs of a pine tree that forms the handle, all against a background of layered rock faces
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) long

来源

Estate of Nils Nessim, Stockholm, Sweden; Butterfields, San Francisco, 13 June 1990, lot 1643.

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拍品专文

The large size and depiction of pine boughs against a background of rock faces on this cup are similar to that of a cup dated to the 17th century in the collection of and illustrated by Thomas Fok in Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, 1999, no. 160. The carving of the pine needle clusters and the use of the pine tree, which is a symbol of longevity, to form the openwork handle are very similar between the two. As the author states, the "absence of human figures further accentuates the sense of tranquility and ease", making this cup an ideal object for contemplation by a scholar.