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18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Details
An Unusual Well-Carved White Jade Carp-Form Box and Cover
18th/Early 19th Century
The cover finely carved as the upper body with raised dorsal fin and graceful tripartite tail, the box with four smaller fins and a partially scalloped rim to fit the outline of the scales at the rim of the cover, the interior compartment of ovoid form, the semi-translucent stone of even white color and well polished
57/8in. (14.9cm.) long, wood stand
18th/Early 19th Century
The cover finely carved as the upper body with raised dorsal fin and graceful tripartite tail, the box with four smaller fins and a partially scalloped rim to fit the outline of the scales at the rim of the cover, the interior compartment of ovoid form, the semi-translucent stone of even white color and well polished
57/8in. (14.9cm.) long, wood stand
Provenance
F.B. Wright.
Exhibited
Derby, England, Fine Art Exhibition, 1877, no. 61.