A SMALL PAIR OF JADE AND AMBER FLOWER GROUPS

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A SMALL PAIR OF JADE AND AMBER FLOWER GROUPS
19TH CENTURY

Each formed from silk thread-wrapped wire stems supporting small, naturalistically carved amber flowerheads and berries centered by coral or glass bead stamens, surrounded by small oval leaves of dark spinach-green jade, with smaller flowering plants at the base of the stems, all rising from a simple celadon-green jardiniere of circular form raised on three feet, some losses--9¼in. (24.3cm.) high (2)