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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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