Coupe libatoire en corne de rhinocéros sculptée Chine, dynastie Qing, fin du XVIIE siècle

à décor d'un sage lisant assis au bord d'une rivière son serviteur non loin de lui attisant le feu dans un pôele près d'une table chargée de vases archaïsants et accessoires de lettré dans un paysage rocailleux planté d'arbres dont les troncs noueux forment une double anse, la base sculptée de vagues et rochers, marque en cachet sur le devant, la corne d'une belle teinte sombre

Overall in good condition. The patina is a bit dry, but the carving is in very good condition. Please note that this work can be attributed to .... (Mentionner ici le nom donné par T Focks + ref. Dans son livre) and that the mark is possibly later added.
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Our libation cup could be attributed to the 17th master carver Zhou Wenhu, a native of Moling. For examples of carvings by Zhou see a cup decorated with a rocky landscape and pine trees, the rock face of the cliff
incised in seal script with the three characters Wenshu zhi (made by Wenshu), from the collection of Harvard University Art Museums, included in Thomas Fok, Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 131. Another vessel, in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, carved with a landscape and signed and dated by Zhou, is published in Jan Chapman, The Chester Beatty Collection of Chinese Carved Rhinoceros Horn Cups, Arts of Asia, May-June 1982, p. 78, pl. 16.
See also a close libation cup of similar shape, double handle with landscape and water scenery carving illustrated in Jan Chapman, The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, London, 1999, fig. 77, p. 95.