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    16 November 1999

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    • A RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP
    Lot 81

    A RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP

    17TH/18TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 4,025

    Estimate

    GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000

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    A RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP
    17th/18th century
    Carved around the exterior with a band of archaistic scrolling motifs in low relief, below a narrow key-pattern band at the rim, a sinuous one-horned mythical beast clutching at the rim, some wear to rim
    3 in. (9.5 cm.) wide

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