bägare, husgeråd

Enligt katalogkort: “Chinese rhinoceros wine cup. Period: Ming/Early Ch’ing, 14th century. Description: Yellowish-brown horn, carved in shape of lotus leaf. Exterior decorated with lotus flower, seed vessel, leaves and a butterfly in high relief. Four stalks forming handle. Measures: H. 90mm L. at lip 166mm; at base 48mm. Purchased: In London at Sotheby’s, 1960. £ 30-0-0. Bequest of H.M. King Gustaf VI Adolf. No 2300. Dossier: Expo: USA 1966, Stockholm 1967, No 147.”
Enligt HM-kort: Vinbägare i form av lotusblad med stjälkar, blomma och blad i relief.
Material: Noshörningshorn i skiftande toner av bärnstensfärg.
Närmare tidsbestämning: trol. 1600-tal.

Chinese rhinoceros wine cup. Period: Ming/Early Ch’ing, 14th century. Description: Yellowish-brown horn, carved in shape of lotus leaf. Exterior decorated with lotus flower, seed vessel, leaves and a butterfly in high relief. Four stalks forming handle. Measures: H. 90mm L. at lip 166mm; at base 48mm. Purchased: In London at Sotheby’s, 1960. £ 30-0-0. Bequest of H.M. King Gustaf VI Adolf. No 2300. Dossier: Expo: USA 1966, Stockholm 1967, No 147.
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