Bao Tiancheng’s rhinoceros horn carved with dragon pattern holding pot

[Bao Tiancheng’s rhinoceros horn carved with Chi pattern holding pot]

Bao Tiancheng’s rhinoceros horn carved with Chi pattern holding pot, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, has a total height of 13 cm and a caliber of 15-7.8 cm
The holding pot is made of Asian rhinoceros horn. The lid is shaped like a helmet. It is dark in color and has a button. The top of the lid is engraved with an echo pattern. The cover is embossed with a banana leaf pattern and a dragon dragon pattern. One side of the pot body is light flow, and a dragon climbs the pot from the pot body to the flow mouth to visit; The other side is the handle, and three dragon dragons play up and down around the handle. The pot body decoration is divided into four layers from bottom to top. The first layer is banana leaf pattern, the second layer is animal face pattern, and the third and fourth layers are flat Kui pattern. The patterns are hidden and carved by shallow relief techniques. At the bottom of the pot, there is “Bao Tiancheng system” in regular script
Bao Tiancheng was a famous carving expert in Jiangsu Province in the late Ming Dynasty, and he was flexible in carving techniques. The flow of the pot and the one-horned dragon on the handle adopt the carving technique, which is flexible and vivid, vigorous and magnificent. Although the carving technique of the shallow relief on the pot body is shallow, the patterns are clear and smooth, which is similar to the Tian Huang stone carving. This small pot made of rhinoceros horn has a beautiful shape, exquisite and exquisite color, and is bright and lustrous. It is extremely rare to make a holding pot with rhinoceros horn. This is a rare treasure in the art of rhinoceros horn in the late Ming Dynasty
This pot was donated to the Palace Museum by Mr. Ye Yi, a famous doctor in Hong Kong, in 1985


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