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PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
A SMALL 'CHICKEN BONE' JADE VASE
18TH CENTURY
Details
A SMALL 'CHICKEN BONE' JADE VASE
18TH CENTURY
Probably made to hold incense tools, the ovoid body raised on a ring foot and carved with a broad band of ten lozenge-shaped vertical lobes framed at top and bottom by pendent and upright conjoined fern-like leaves, with a row of similar leaves pendent below the lipped rim, the semi-opaque stone of finely mottled greyish-white color with black coloring at the rim and added black color on the body
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high, wood stand
18TH CENTURY
Probably made to hold incense tools, the ovoid body raised on a ring foot and carved with a broad band of ten lozenge-shaped vertical lobes framed at top and bottom by pendent and upright conjoined fern-like leaves, with a row of similar leaves pendent below the lipped rim, the semi-opaque stone of finely mottled greyish-white color with black coloring at the rim and added black color on the body
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high, wood stand
Provenance
William Henry Crocker and Ethel Mary Crocker de Limur, San Francisco, and by descent to the present owner.