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Transitional blue and white slender cylindrical brush holder. Circa 1640

Transitional blue and white slender cylindrical brush holder. Circa 1640. Photo Bonhams Delicately pencilled on one side with a boy riding a buffalo beside a large cluster of pine issuing from the banks of a river within delicately incised brocade-style...

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16 novembre 2011

An archaistic rhinoceros horn libation cup. 17th century

An archaistic rhinoceros horn libation cup. 17th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd, 2011. The flared sides rising to an oval mouth and raised on a waisted foot, carved around the exterior with a band of taotie masks reserved on leiwen grounds below...

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16 novembre 2011

A rare rhinoceros horn 'Hibiscus' libation cup, 17th century

A rare rhinoceros horn 'Hibiscus' libation cup, 17th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd, 2011 Finely carved as a large hibiscus flower, detailed in relief with a small chilong beside the stamen to the centre of the interior, one side of the exterior...

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16 novembre 2011

A rhinoceros horn archaistic libation cup, 17th centuryA rhinoceros horn archaistic libation cup, 17th century

A rhinoceros horn archaistic libation cup, 17th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd, 2011 Of flared form carved to the centre with a band of stylised phoenix detailed with long curled tail feathers, below a band of pendant blades enclosing cicadas, the...

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16 novembre 2011

A rare and finely-carved rhinoceros horn pouring vessel. 17th century, 'Xiao Yu' Two-character seal mark

A rare and finely-carved rhinoceros horn pouring vessel. 17th century, 'Xiao Yu' two-character seal mark. Photo Christie's Image Ltd, 2011 Of slightly flared cylindrical form, supported on a slightly splayed foot and rising towards a waisted neck, finely...

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Tags: rhinoceros horn, 17th century, pouring vessel, 'Xiao Yu' two-character seal mark

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16 novembre 2011

A finely carved archaistic rhinoceros horn libation cup. 17th century

A finely carved archaistic rhinoceros horn libation cup. 17th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd, 2011 Of flared quatrefoil form rising from a tall slightly splayed foot encircled with a key-fret band, well-carved to the mid-section of each side with...

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16 novembre 2011

A large rhinoceros horn libation cup. 17th century

A large rhinoceros horn libation cup. 17th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd, 2011 Well carved in the interior and on the exterior as a large lotus leaf, the exterior with leafy flowering and fruiting branches of lychee, peach and sweet flag in relief,...

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15 novembre 2011

A small rhinoceros horn libation cup. 17th-18th century

A small rhinoceros horn libation cup. 17th-18th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd, 2011 Carved in naturalistic form, the base with a stylised rockwork design below an elongated tapering tip, the horn of a deep toffee tone; 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high. Estimate...

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15 novembre 2011

A rhinoceros horn 'Squirrels And Grapes' libation cup. 17th century

A rhinoceros horn 'Squirrels And Grapes' libation cup. 17th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd, 2011 Finely carved as large overlapping leaves with tips folded over the rim, decorated to the exterior with a continuous scene of squirrels clambering amidst...

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15 novembre 2011

A very rare rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th century

A very rare rhinoceros horn libation cup, 17th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd, 2011 Exquisitely carved around the exterior with a continuous scene from Xixiang ji, (The Romance of The Western Chamber), with two female figures dressed in long robes,...

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