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Lot 3510

A Group of Small Turquoise and Malachite Carvings

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Includes a malachite carving of three cranes amongst a landscape populated with pine trees; a turquoise carving of an elephant; and a turquoise carving of a woman holding a flower basket standing alongside a young girl, branches show behind them coming from a pine or bonsai tree growing from a jardiniere resting on a rock, with number 75-10 incised into the bottom.

Tallest 3 5/8 in.

From the Collection of Josephine Chapman Borthwick, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Break and repair to malachite crane carving and a few small losses mainly to posterior; cracking to elephant carving; areas of yellowing to both turquoise carvings.