18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A SMALL PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE MUGHAL-STYLE HEART-SHAPED BOX AND COVER
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The thin and translucent box and cover carved in relief with a band of foliate meander between narrow herringbone borders, the box raised on a conforming foot and the slightly domed cover with a pierced crown-shaped finial rising from a flat heart-shaped platform
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) across

Provenance

William Henry Crocker and Ethel Mary Crocker de Limur, San Francisco, and by descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

The shape of this box appears to be based on Mughal or Hindustan jade prototypes such as the heart-shaped box carved with flowering stems and with a foliate finial on the cover illustrated in Great National Treasures of China: Special Exhibition in Kaohsiung City Loaned by the National Palace Museum's Seventieth Anniversary, Taipei, p. 94, no. 67.

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