Lot 833 D‡α

A rhinoceroshorn cup. 19th century

The conical shape rising to a wide oval rim, the inside carved in shallow relief with a lingzhi head, the outside carved in openwork with a descending qilong with a lingzhi in his mouth and a rising qilong which looks over the rim into the inside of the cup, amidst bamboo and lingzhi arranged like clouds, the foot shaped by bamboo, lingzhi and a rock. Hair crack originating at the rim and running down the inside. In a fitted wooden stand carved with rocks, pine branches and lingzhi.
Height 8.6 cm; width 16.8 cm; depth 11 cm