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93Y
           A very rare rhinoceros horn ‘pine’ libation cup
           17th/18th century
           The broad-lipped glossy cup formed as a pine trunk with detailed
           oval knots carved in low relief, the handle shaped as a twisted pine
           branch issuing groups of pine needles, rising from the foot and
           reaching into the smooth interior, and intertwined with a slender
           twisting branch of flowering prunus.
           16.8cm (6 5/8in) long
           £100,000 - 150,000
           HK$1,200,000 - 1,900,000		CNY980,000 - 1,500,000

           十七/十八世紀 犀角雕松樹紋杯
           Provenance: an important European private collection
           Previously on loan to two British museums from the mid 1970s until
           recently.
           來源:重要歐洲私人收藏
           一直由1970年代中期到最近借展於兩間英國博物館

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