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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 士紳藏品
Lots 152 - 153

152 Y
A RARE RHINOCEROS HORN LEAF-SHAPED LIBATION CUP The present lot is particularly rare for the method in which its shape
17th/18th century was formed: rather than the typical method of carving the horn into
The dark-chocolate-toned horn well carved in the form of a curling the required form, a small section was cut from the side wall of the
artemisia leaf with incised veins, the handle formed of entwined rhinoceros horn, and subsequently soaked until it was pliable enough
branches issuing further leaves and flowers. to be curled into shape by hand; see J.Chapman, ibid., p.105.
9cm (3 1/2in) long.
Compare a related ‘lotus leaf’ rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th
£5,000 - 8,000 century, which was sold by Christie’s London, 11 July 2006, lot
CNY45,000 - 71,000 42; and see also another rhinoceros horn ‘lotus leaf’ libation cup,
17th/18th century, which was sold at Christie’s London, 15 May 2007,
lot 48.
十七/十八世紀 犀角葉形盃

Provenance: an important European private collection

Published and Illustrated: J.Chapman, The Art of Rhinoceros Horn
Carving in China, London, 1999, p.105, pl.95.

來源： 重要歐洲私人收藏

出版及著錄： J.Chapman著，《The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving
in China（中國犀角雕刻藝術）》，倫敦，1999年， 頁105，圖95

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