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A ‘magnolia and lingzhi fungus’ rhinoceros horn A rhinoceros horn ‘chilong and flowers’ libation
libation cup cup
18th century 17th/18th century
The exterior smoothly carved with a single branch of magnolia issuing The horn of dark amber tone and carved with one single-horned
two heavy blossoms beneath the lip beside a smaller bud, the handle chilong with a spray of lingzhi fungus in its mouth balancing between
formed from two twisting trunks issuing leaves and a single lingzhi a magnolia bud and a lotus leaf issuing from twisting stems gripped
fungus, the foot carved as a very low circle and the interior plain. by another chilong forming the stem of the cup, the interior plain.
12.9cm (5in) long 11.5cm (4¼in) high
£6,000 - 8,000 £20,000 - 30,000
HK$75,000 - 100,000 CNY59,000 - 79,000 HK$250,000 - 370,000 CNY200,000 - 290,000
十八世紀 犀角雕玉蘭靈芝紋杯 十七/十八世紀 犀角雕螭龍花卉紋杯
Compare a related larger rhinoceros horn ‘magnolia’ libation Provenance: a German private collection
cup, early Ming Dynasty, illustrated in The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and 來源：德國私人收藏
Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, Beijing, 2001, pl.110. The original form of the rhinoceros horn of the present libation cup
The United Kingdom Government has imposed has been well preserved and cleverly sculpted utilising the tip to
an almost complete prohibition on granting a create the form of a chi dragon clambering atop the leafy and fruiting
license to permit the export of worked antique spray. Compare a related rhinoceros horn libation cup, late 17th
rhinoceros horn from the UK to any destination century, illustrated by T.Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn
outside the European Union. Please check with the Carving in China, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.29.
department for further details. The United Kingdom Government has imposed
an almost complete prohibition on granting a
license to permit the export of worked antique
rhinoceros horn from the UK to any destination
outside the European Union. Please check with the
department for further details.
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