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Lot 548

A jadeite hanging flower basket
Late Qing dynasty/Republic period

18 March 2019, 10:00 EDT
New York

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A jadeite hanging flower basket

Late Qing dynasty/Republic period
Carved with a loose ring at the top of the cusped handle which pivots within the arched handles on flattened basket shape filled with a flowering peony plant, the rim of the basket finished with a row of tiny raised bosses and the opposing walls of the body filled with reserves of composite flowers and leaves in delicate raised relief, the stone showing a range of color from translucent greenish white at the top to brilliant leaf green at the base.
5 1/8in (13cm) high

Footnotes

清末/民國 翠玉雕提樑花籃

Provenance:
A San Francisco Couple

For a prototype in white nephrite, see the pair of flower basket pendants dated to the Qianlong or Jiaqing period in James C. Y. Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Japan, 1988, fig. 84, p.102 (2 3/4in (7cm) high).

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