清十九世紀 紅瑪瑙佛手瓶

the large fruit naturalistically carved with elongated fingers and curling tips with two smaller attendant fruits, all issuing from an openwork leafy stalk forming the base, entwined with sprigs of lingzhi to the bottom and a gnarled branch bearing a pair of peaches at the top, the variegated stone of a transparent reddish pink tone suffused with milky-white and vermilion inclusions

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One of the tendrils of the pain fruit and the leaf adjacent to the smallest fruit has a polished chip at the tip. There is a possible break to the top of the carving; a 3cm repair is evident on one of the peaches. There are minor nicks and chips to the extremities, the stone has numerous natural veining and inclusions. The stone is of a very slightly brighter tone than the catalogue illustration.
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