Four Picture Frames with Carved Hardstone Decoration

Description:

Four Picture Frames with Carved Hardstone Decoration, China, 19th/20th century, all rectangular, one with slightly domed top, decorated with spinach green openwork phoenixes and peonies, metalwork edges; one metalwork frame decorated with floral design and green stone bats; a cloth-clad frame decorated with five insets of oval jade green with openwork of floral scrolls; and another with slightly domed top, decorated with jade stone framed with openwork floral and foliate scrolls, joined with gilt-metal fittings, openwork floral carving on the top edge, sizes to 16 3/4 x 13 in.
Estimate $800-1,000

torn frame holder to a frame; overall surface dirt; age wear to some carvings; a detached decoration to a frame.


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