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Chinese carving of tall yellow/amber figure (Chinese god of old age) holding fruit and staff; mounted on carved base. Possibly soapstone but probably jade.
figurines
carving (processes)
jade (rock)
Jade
Carved
FIGURINE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
14 x 4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.202
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