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Pair of small bowls or nephrite jade *, from China, vintage late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
These bowls are in good condition, they are of outstanding quality.
A note: tiny micro-scratches and wear of time, see pictures.
is a rock composed mainly of a variety of amphibole, actinolite. This is one of the two rocks called jade, the other being jadeitite, composed mainly of jadeite, a variety of pyroxene. Nephritis is an ornamental stone, used in a wide variety of jewelry and decorative items.
