Fine Asian Art - 12th November 2024

Lot 39

λ A CHINESE RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP

Estimate £4,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £4788

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Description

λ A CHINESE RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP
17TH/18TH CENTURY

The U-shaped body smoothly carved with a short straight foot rising to a flared rim, the streaked fibrous material is of a pale golden honey tone darkening to a deep brown at the base, 101g, 8.9cm wide.

Please note that an export licence will only be granted for rhinoceros horn pieces, should the hammer price meet or exceed the value of 100 USD per gram of the item’s weight.

Provenance: formerly from the collection of Percy D. Krolik (1902-70).

Cf. T Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, 1999, p.110; see also, Christie's Hong Kong, 30th May 2012, lot 4155, for a similar plain rhinoceros horn cup.

十七/十八世紀 犀角雕素身撇口杯
來源： Percy D Krolik 的舊藏 (傳)。
注：若閣下需辦出口證書，落槌價須超過每克100美金。