A CHINESE CARVED BUFFALO HORN LIBATION CUP, 19TH CENTURY A CHINESE CARVED BUFFALO HORN LIBATION CUP, 19TH CENTURY A CHINESE CARVED BUFFALO HORN LIBATION CUP, 19TH CENTURY A CHINESE CARVED BUFFALO HORN LIBATION CUP, 19TH CENTURY A CHINESE CARVED BUFFALO HORN LIBATION CUP, 19TH CENTURY A CHINESE CARVED BUFFALO HORN LIBATION CUP, 19TH CENTURY

A CHINESE CARVED BUFFALO HORN LIBATION CUP, 19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART1008063

The elaborately carved dark-honey-colored horn in the shape of an archaic bronze vessel , the strap handle with a stylised dragon head looking outwards on the rim of the mouth and the tail curling and splitting into two parts with a dragon flat on the handle, the body with a band of dragons with long writhing bodies.
14 cm width.
12 cm. height