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A Magnificent Rhinoceros Horn 'Hawks' Libation Cup, signed You Kan. Qing Dynasty, 17th-18th Century

A Magnificent Rhinoceros Horn 'Hawks' Libation Cup, signed You Kan. Qing Dynasty, 17th-18th Century. Photo Sotheby's the tall horn superbly carved in high relief as a pair of hawks by a gnarled tree with branches growing from the sides of a mountain ledge,...

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12 août 2012

Figure of Guanyin, carved rhinoceros horn, China, Ming dynasty, ca.1630

Figure of Guanyin, carved rhinoceros horn, China, Ming dynasty, ca.1630. Height: 15.3 cm, Width: 17.2 cm at base. FE.13-1970. The Hon. Dame Ada McNaughton Bequest. © V&A Images. Rhinoceros horn figure of Guanyin, standing turned slightly to her right...

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1 juillet 2012

Antique Chinese rhinoceros horn carving. Late 18th-early 19th Century

十八/十九世纪犀角镂雕人物花纹杯 A ntique Chinese rhinoceros horn carving. L ate 18th-early 19th Century. © I. M. Chait Gallery Very elaborately carved and highly unusual, the body of reticulated design of flowering branches; surmounted with sage, figures and an attendant,...

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1 juillet 2012

Important and superbly openwork carved, antique Chinese rhinoceros horn libation cup. Late 18th-early 19th Century

十八/十九世紀犀角镂雕葡萄花果紋杯. Important and superbly openwork carved, antique Chinese rhinoceros horn libation cup. Late 18th-early 19th Century. © I. M. Chait Gallery the body with fully openwork flowers and fruits on budding vines and branches; the horn of outstanding...

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16 mai 2012

A rare large rhinoceros horn libation cup, 19th century

A rare large rhinoceros horn libation cup, 19th century. Photo Bonhams The full-tip reticulated horn superbly carved in high relief with the the HeHe Erxian holding a spray of nandina and an ingot, above two deer, the reverse carved with three rams, all...

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16 mai 2012

A rhinoceros horn 'lotus leaf' libation cup, 17th-18th century

A rhinoceros horn 'lotus leaf' libation cup, 17th-18th century. Photo Bonhams The interior of the cup incised with veins rising to the irregular scalloped rim, the leaf motif repeated on the exterior rising from a band of breaking waves, two baby dragons...

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16 mai 2012

A fine rhinoceros horn libation cup, 18th century

A fine rhinoceros horn libation cup, 18th century. Photo Bonhams The exterior carved in crisp shallow relief with four landscape panels each contained within a raised surround, a shallow-relief band of archaistic double S-scrolls beneath the asymmetrical...

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16 mai 2012

A fine rhinoceros horn cup, 17th-18th century

A fine rhinoceros horn cup, 17th-18th century. Photo Bonhams Deeply and elaborately carved in relief around the outside of the magnolia-blossom flaring cup on each side with a chilong dragon coiling amongst long leafy berried branches, a third chilong...

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16 mai 2012

A fine rhinoceros horn cup, 17th-18th century

A fine rhinoceros horn cup, 17th-18th century. Photo Bonhams Crisply carved around the leaf-veined flaring bowl on the exterior with long curling leaves and branches of plum blossom, millet and lotus, the handle as two tied stalks. 14cm (5½in) long Lot...

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16 mai 2012

A fine rhinoceros horn cup, 17th-18th century

A fine rhinoceros horn cup, 17th-18th century. Photo Bonhams The interior carved as a flaring petalled blossom, the handle as a large chilong biting the rim and with long leafy stems of blossoming peony and plum blossom rising from the coiled stem base....

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