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拍品專文
Stylised phoenix bands above hanging cicada blades are motifs found originally on archaic bronze ritual vessels. Such archaistic designs were frequently used as a way of referencing and attributing antiquity. See a gu-shaped rhinoceros horn cup in the Gerard Levy Collection, also with a phoenix and cicada band, illustrated by Jan Chapman, The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, London, 1999, p. 151, no. 182. Compare also the smaller and narrower phoenix and cicada bands carved to an archaistic rhinoceros horn libation cup sold in these rooms, 10 May 2011, lot 7.
Please note this lot is accompanied by a letter from Animal Health agreeing that Christie's may sell it without further CITES certification and confirming that they would be likely to grant an export permit for it to leave the EU post-sale.
Please note this lot is accompanied by a letter from Animal Health agreeing that Christie's may sell it without further CITES certification and confirming that they would be likely to grant an export permit for it to leave the EU post-sale.