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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  August Art & Antique Auction
• Sale Date:
  13 Aug 2013 ~ 10am (NZ time) (Lots 1 - 363)
  12 Aug 2013 ~ 5pm (NZ time) (Lots 400 - 723)
• Lot #:
  330
• Lot Description:
  An 18th/19th century Chinese rhinoceros horn libation cup
  Of deep chestnut colour, realistically carved and detailed as an unfurling lotus leaf supported within a framework of stalks of lotus blossoms and leaves, seeding millet, arrowhead and bulrush plants whose bent stalks are each undercut to form an open work base of interlacing fibrous roots protecting a fish carved amongst their fine growth. The interior incised with radiating and branching veins.
• Provenance:
  Our vendor’s grandfather collected the cup in Cornwall, England before emigrating to New Zealand in early 1946 at the end of WWII. 161 x 98 x 83. A signed and witnessed affidavit of provenance from our vendor is available.
• Notes:
  Individually and together the plant species incorporate potent Chinese symbolism; the lotus for uncontaminated beauty, the arrowhead for benevolence, the millet for abundance, their intertwining symbolises harmony whilst the quail that fly above and the fish protected below represent abundance.
• Estimate:
  NZ$28,000 - 28,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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