AN UNUSUAL LARGE BLACK-STAINED RHINOCEROS HORN CUP LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY The sides well carved in high relief unusually with narrative scenes, perhaps from the fourteenth century novel, Xixiangji , (The Romance of the Western Chamber), all in a setting of rocks and trees, with a large pine tree interlaced with a tall outcropping of rock at one end to form the handle, and with a pine bough at either end on the rock-carved interior, stained matte black 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) long
AN UNUSUAL LARGE BLACK-STAINED RHINOCEROS HORN CUP LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY The sides well carved in high relief unusually with narrative scenes, perhaps from the fourteenth century novel, Xixiangji , (The Romance of the Western Chamber), all in a setting of rocks and trees, with a large pine tree interlaced with a tall outcropping of rock at one end to form the handle, and with a pine bough at either end on the rock-carved interior, stained matte black 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) long
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