A 'CHICKEN BONE' JADE BRUSHPOT 17TH CENTURY

of conical form broadening at the mouth, the body modeled self-referentially as a rock with surface textures and hollows carefully carved, a pine tree in high relief wrapping around one side of the vase, a mythical beast carved in the round climbing the other side, the light gray jade stippled and veined with tan and dark gray inclusions

S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco.

The upper body has an approx. 7.7-cm wide crescent-shaped crack, with some consolidation and concealing spray. The rim with an approx. 0.7-cm crack, as well as an approx. 1-cm wide polished chip. One side with an approx. 0.2-cm wide shallow chip to the lower edge of one needles cluster below the rim. Some minute nicks to the extremities and natural fissures to the stone. The actual color of the stone is slightly more celadon compared to the catalogue illustration.
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