An exceptional inscribed rhinoceros horn 'drunken poet' libation cup signed by You Kan (active 1660 - 1720) Qing dynasty, Kangxi period the horn of golden honey tone, with rather widely splayed mouth tapering sharply to the truncated base, superbly carved with a young boy attendant bearing a tall ewer of wine before his chest towards a seated bearded scholar or poet, reclining in lordly ease upon a late Ming 'drunken lord's' chair, with sloping reclining back and carved pillow-form headrest projecting over the horseshoe-back shaped crestrail and set into the seat-frame and arm-rails, the poet obviously tipsy as he gestures with raised winecup and lobed hat slightly askew, reading an open book before a rushing stream, with bamboo and rockwork forming the handles to one end, and further plants and swirling clouds continuing to the interior, with a poem incised just under the mouthrim just by the seal in raised relief, cunningly half-hidden behind a large boulder and reading You 5 5/8 in., 14.2 cm
An exceptional inscribed rhinoceros horn 'drunken poet' libation cup signed by You Kan (active 1660 - 1720) Qing dynasty, Kangxi period the horn of golden honey tone, with rather widely splayed mouth tapering sharply to the truncated base, superbly carved with a young boy attendant bearing a tall ewer of wine before his chest towards a seated bearded scholar or poet, reclining in lordly ease upon a late Ming 'drunken lord's' chair, with sloping reclining back and carved pillow-form headrest projecting over the horseshoe-back shaped crestrail and set into the seat-frame and arm-rails, the poet obviously tipsy as he gestures with raised winecup and lobed hat slightly askew, reading an open book before a rushing stream, with bamboo and rockwork forming the handles to one end, and further plants and swirling clouds continuing to the interior, with a poem incised just under the mouthrim just by the seal in raised relief, cunningly half-hidden behind a large boulder and reading You 5 5/8 in., 14.2 cm
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