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The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品
95Y
A fine pair of full-tip rhinoceros
horn ‘lotus pond’ libation cups
19th century
Each long horn intricately carved with a large
lotus blossom concealing a frog crouching on the
inside petals, issuing from a long smooth stem
surrounded by twisting overlapping stems, leaves
and lotus blossoms and buds on which frogs and
crabs crawl, the lotus stems growing from waves
with a crayfish swimming at the tip, wood stands.
The taller 52.7cm (20¾in) high (4).
£25,000 - 40,000
HK$310,000 - 500,000
CNY250,000 - 390,000
十九世紀 犀角鏤雕蓮花紋杯一對
Provenance: Charles Brooking Compton (1876-
1935), and thence by descent
A European private collection, no.OA 916
來源：Charles Brooking Compton (1876-1935)藏
品，並由家族繼承下去
歐洲私人收藏，編號OA 916
A similar pair of full-tip rhinoceros horn libation
cups was sold in these rooms, 17 May 2012, lot
227.
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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