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A WELL-CARVED WHITE JADE MELON-FORM BOX AND COVER
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A WELL-CARVED WHITE JADE MELON-FORM BOX AND COVER
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The box and the cover finely carved in the round as a fleshy melon with areas of softly rounded texture to indicate the skin, a smaller melon carved at one end borne on one of the leafy, budding branches which extend across the cover, around the sides and under the base, with a butterfly hovering at the rim of the cover, the stone softly polished and of even tone, small rim chip
5¼in. (13.4cm.) long, wood stand
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The box and the cover finely carved in the round as a fleshy melon with areas of softly rounded texture to indicate the skin, a smaller melon carved at one end borne on one of the leafy, budding branches which extend across the cover, around the sides and under the base, with a butterfly hovering at the rim of the cover, the stone softly polished and of even tone, small rim chip
5¼in. (13.4cm.) long, wood stand