Carved old man’s rhinoceros horn cup

[Carved flower and wood old man’s rhinoceros horn cup]

Carved flower and wood old man’s rhinoceros horn cup, clear
Rhinoceros horn is a kind of precious traditional Chinese medicine. The wine or water placed in the rhinoceros horn cup can absorb the medicinal properties of the rhinoceros horn itself and play the role of cooling blood and detoxicating. Therefore, its sculpture has always been valued by people. Therefore, the officials and workers of the Qing Dynasty made great efforts to search for it to present it to the emperor. This piece should be presented by Ji Yun. According to the records of the Qing Palace, “On August 20, the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign (1790), Ji Yun entered the old rhinoceros horn to look at a piece of Xiancha”