18TH CENTURY

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A RARE RHINOCEROS HORN POURING VESSEL
18TH CENTURY
Of helmet shape, carved around the sides with an archaistic taotie band, with an unusual strap handle, the base carved with a seal, Hu Xingyue zuo (made by Hu Xingyue)
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high

來源

Earl Kingston Lindley Collection, Pasadena, California; Butterfields, San Francisco, 22 October 2001, lot 3323.

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According to Jan Chapman, The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, London, 1999, p. 129, there are eight cups known by Hu Xingyue, who probably worked during the 18th century. The author illustrates the carver's seal on one of the known cups, an archaistic cup in the Museum voor Volkendunde, Rotterdam, no. 134. She goes on to mention that others are in "the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Victoria and Albert Museum", while the remainder are in private collections.