A JADEITE HANGING BASKET AND COVER 20TH CENTURY

intricately worked in the form of a flower basket suspending a tassel at the base, set on top of the widely everted mouth with a long linked chain for suspension, the shoulder with four ringed handles, the mouthrim with a large leaf borne on a flower branch issuing a smaller chain, terminating in a flower leaf with a grasshopper perching on top, the large leaf and the insect cleverly rendered utilising the apple-green colour of the stone, the cover surmounted by a bird grasping a flower sprig, wood stands