A BRILLIANT EMERALD-GREEN JADEITE BOWL AND COVER
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The bowl is finely carved with steep rounded sides decorated with a raised band at mid-section, the fitted cover is surmounted by a knopped finial and enhanced with later gold mounts by Vacheron and Constantin with a chased design of key-fret, the flawless and highly translucent ice-white stone suffused with brilliant emerald and apple-green veins
4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm.) diam.