拍品专文
The first cup: purchased Sotheby & Co., 15 November, 1965, lot 23 (part lot).
17TH/18TH CENTURY
细节
TWO CARVED RHINOCEROS HORN LIBATION CUPS
17th/18th century
The first of rectangular shape forming a spout to one side and deeply carved and pierced with a double-loop handle with a gui-dragon grasping at the rim to the other side, the exterior carved in low relief with a wide cell-pattern band, the everted rim incised with a narrow key-fret band, the highly polished surface of a warm honey-brown colour, some chips to rim, aperture at base; the second similarly carved with a gui-dragon and C-scroll handle in high relief and standing on a pedestal foot, the colours ranging from pale amber to darker reddish brown at the interior, minor chips
the first 6 in. (15.2 cm); the second 5 in. (13.3 cm.) wide (2)
17th/18th century
The first of rectangular shape forming a spout to one side and deeply carved and pierced with a double-loop handle with a gui-dragon grasping at the rim to the other side, the exterior carved in low relief with a wide cell-pattern band, the everted rim incised with a narrow key-fret band, the highly polished surface of a warm honey-brown colour, some chips to rim, aperture at base; the second similarly carved with a gui-dragon and C-scroll handle in high relief and standing on a pedestal foot, the colours ranging from pale amber to darker reddish brown at the interior, minor chips
the first 6 in. (15.2 cm); the second 5 in. (13.3 cm.) wide (2)