Elegant skuren och urgröpt, brämet med eldsfammor som följer hornets naturliga from. Rik kolafärgad ton. Höjd 19,3 cm. Vikt 467 g.
Torrsprickor, nagg.
Weight: 467 g.
Purchased by a Swedish Art and Antique Collector in Pairs in the 1940's, thence by descent.
Chapman, Jan: The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, London, 1999. Pl. 170 and 305. Compare similar carved horns.
Gillman, A Source of Rhinoceros Horn Cups in the Late Ming Dynasty. Illustrates a similar horn bequeathed to the British Museum by Sir Hans Sloane in 1753.
Compare similar horn sold at Sotheby's, London, May 14th 2008. Lot no 502.
Another similar horn from the Collection of Lord Suffield of Gunton Park, Norfolk, was sold in Sotheby's, Hong Kong May 20th 1986, lot 178.
Please take part of the following information of export restrictions on this lot www.jordbruksverket.se/cites.
Due to CITES regulations, it is not possible to export objects made of rhinoceros horn to countries outside EU.