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A carved rhinoceros horn 'prunus' libation cup Qing dynasty,…
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Melbourne
Date:
6-Apr-2016
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Description:
A carved rhinoceros horn 'prunus' libation cup Qing dynasty, 17th/18th century, naturalistically carved as a prunus blossom with flaring overlapping petals forming the cup, the exterior carved in high relief with branches bearing prunus buds and blossoms and with bamboo shoots, extending over the sides from the openwork boughs forming the foot, the handle to one side formed of flowering branches in pierced relief rising to the rim and extending onto the interior, the horn of a deep caramel colour, 16.5 cm wide. Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 12 October, 1976, lot 3, The Zorich Collection, Adelaide, acquired from the above . Cups with similar decoration include one in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, illustrated in Jan Chapman, The Art of the Rhinoceros Horn Carving of China, London, 1999, pl. 215, and one in the Sydney L. Moss collection, included in the exhibition Escape from the Dusty World, Chinese Paintings and Literati Works of Art, Hong Kong, 1999, cat. no. 72, other similar cups sold Sotheby's, London, 12 March 1982, lot 74, Sotheby's New York, 12 October 1984, lot 256, and Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 8 April 2014, lot 3013
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Oriental: Zother