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Auction archive: Lot number 6

A WELL-CARVED RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP

Auction 27.11.1991
27 Nov 1991
Estimate
US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$8,250
Auction archive: Lot number 6

A WELL-CARVED RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP

Auction 27.11.1991
27 Nov 1991
Estimate
US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$8,250
Beschreibung:

A WELL-CARVED RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP 17TH/18TH CENTURY Carved in high relief with a swarm of various kinds of dragons and chilongs crawling around the exterior, several dragons on the exterior and the three on the interior carved as if emerging from the skin of the horn, with a large dragon at one end climbing onto the interior to form the handle, of deep honey color, rim chips--6 in. (15.2cm.) long

Auction archive: Lot number 6
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

A WELL-CARVED RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUP 17TH/18TH CENTURY Carved in high relief with a swarm of various kinds of dragons and chilongs crawling around the exterior, several dragons on the exterior and the three on the interior carved as if emerging from the skin of the horn, with a large dragon at one end climbing onto the interior to form the handle, of deep honey color, rim chips--6 in. (15.2cm.) long

Auction archive: Lot number 6
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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