Posted 2018/11/25
In Sichuan Province museum collections in the horn cup, a Qing Dynasty carved dragon lines to horn cup, the cup is 9.4 centimeters tall, the largest diameter of 14.5 cm, was red brown, oval 12 petal shaped opening, false foot, like a horn shape; a pair of large bird song Li, beak open, the same patterns, look at each other, upper and lower limbs entwined with openwork carving, as the cup ear; and the ear relative to the other side, is a row of longitudinally aligned with the five convex edges, overlap in the head pattern. The cup body adopts high relief method, and also uses a hollow semicircle carving method, created more than 10 different look small Chi in the cup body everywhere, different shapes. Each small dragon head is not the same, as first, bird head, dragon and the unicorn horns beast head and so on, but no matter what the head shape, all they reveal all dragon body, a head looked, there are chasing each other bite. Cup mouth along with FRET a week, near the mouth of the inner wall and the outer wall of the Lei Wenyi cycle; frontal petal and fret, respectively. To mark with bas-reliefs and line engraving the petal, wild animal and fret and pattern as the decoration, foot aligned 11 heads toward the line engraved dragon pattern.
Coil dragon pattern in the spring and Autumn Period bronzes, jade often appear earlier, no horns, gradually, and the form of a unique style, more freedom.
