Lot Essay
A similar cup also fashioned as a lotus leaf with nine chilong is illustrated by T. Fok in Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 50, no. 3.
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17TH CENTURY
Details
A RARE CARVED RHINOCEROS HORN CUP
17TH CENTURY
Finely carved inside and out as a lotus leaf rising from a base of churning waves in which seven sinuous chilong weave in and out with two larger openwork chilong forming the handle and one in the interior, the material of deep honey tone
7 1/8 in. (18.2 cm) long
17TH CENTURY
Finely carved inside and out as a lotus leaf rising from a base of churning waves in which seven sinuous chilong weave in and out with two larger openwork chilong forming the handle and one in the interior, the material of deep honey tone
7 1/8 in. (18.2 cm) long
Provenance
Acquired in Philadelphia in the early 1930s, and thence by descent within the family.
Special notice
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