Plump Plum

1700-1840
Height: 5.52 cm
Mouth/lip: .6/1 cm
Stopper: coral; vinyl collar

Provenance:
Mossgreen Auction, Australia, 16 April 2016, lot 13
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

 

Translucent, greenish-white nephrite of pebble material with variegated brown skin; with a narrow, flat lip and no functional foot; carved in the form of a plum, or similarly shaped fruit, growing from a leafy branch supporting two smaller fruit set against it and using the colour of the skin as a cameo relief.

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