Email this lot to a friend

« Email Address (separate multiple emails with a comma)

hide

Lot 3070

translate

email

save

Chinese Jade Plaque in Edward Farmer Silver Mount

Sign In to see what this sold for

Assembled sterling silver and Chinese jade stationary tray with mountings by Edward Farmer, the reticulated nephrite plaque carved with Hehe Erxian characteristically carrying a box or holding a lotus sprig and accented by three auspicious bats and lingzhi, all set below a glass disk forming the floor of the dish, the sterling silver walls featuring blossoms meandering in low relief on a granulated ground, the exterior side marked 'Edward I Farmer New York' and 'Sterling', all raised on four chalcedony supports, overall: 4.125 Provenance: Deaccession USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, to benefit the Acquisitions Fund

Click on thumbnails to see larger images:

View Clars Auction Gallery next auction.

Similar lots up for auction