18TH/19TH CENTURY
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A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADEITE CRICKET CAGE AND COVER WITH CHLOROMALANITE MOUNTS
18th/19th Century
Made in imitation of gourd prototypes, the sides well carved in high relief with two men seated at a stone table playing ge beneath a pine tree while an attendant watches and three women talk off to the side, the scene separated by rock formations from two attendants, one fanning a stove to heat wine, the other standing beside a table of scholar's objects, the semi-opaque stone of milky pale greenish-white color with some small areas of pale green coloring, with a dark green chloromalanite mount on the rim and another on the cover beneath a reticulated dome carved with the Three Friends above a reticulated plaque carved in imitation of woven cane mesh
6 3/8in. (16.2cm.) height
18th/19th Century
Made in imitation of gourd prototypes, the sides well carved in high relief with two men seated at a stone table playing ge beneath a pine tree while an attendant watches and three women talk off to the side, the scene separated by rock formations from two attendants, one fanning a stove to heat wine, the other standing beside a table of scholar's objects, the semi-opaque stone of milky pale greenish-white color with some small areas of pale green coloring, with a dark green chloromalanite mount on the rim and another on the cover beneath a reticulated dome carved with the Three Friends above a reticulated plaque carved in imitation of woven cane mesh
6 3/8in. (16.2cm.) height