CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVIEME SIECLE

细节

RARE ET IMPORTANTE COUPE LIBATOIRE EN CORNE DE RHINOCEROS SCULPTEE
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVIEME SIECLE
L'extérieur orné d'un registre archaïsant de masques de taotie répartis de part et d'autre d'arêtes à motifs géométriques, l'ensemble sur fond de leiwen, la lèvre et le pied ornés de frises de grecques, l'anse cambrée et surmontée de six chilong de tailles diverses, socle en bois, boîte
Hauteur: 10,7 cm. (4¼ in.), Longueur: 18,5 cm. (7¼ in.)

来源

The Fowler Museum Collection, California, previously sold at Sotheby's New York, 14th-15th February 1985, lot 950
The Songzhutang Collection

出版

T. Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 49, no. 2

展览

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth: Gems of Antiquities Collections in Hong Kong, 2002-2005

注意事项

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A LARGE ARCHAISTIC RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION POURING VESSEL
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

荣誉呈献

Mathilde Courteault

mcourteault@christies.com +33 (0)1 40 76 86 05

拍品专文

The form of the present carving is based on ritual vessels of the Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1100-771 BC), such as the bronze yi sold at Christie's New York, 21 September 2000, lot 167. While the ancient bronze prototypes typically have four short legs rather than an oval foot, many of the later Ming and Qing interpretations of the form in jade and rhinoceros horn carvings have dispensed with the legs in favour of a stepped foot.

Compare the form and characteristic broad curved spout with a rhinoceros horn libation cup in the Qing Imperial collection, illustrated in Bamboo, Wood and Ivory Carvings, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, vol. 44, p. 152, no. 134. The Palace Museum example bears the mark of the carver, Hu Xingyue, and is dated to the late Ming period. For a related archaistic cup also inscribed with the same maker's mark from the present collection, see lot 1814.