Flower 167 - (8443)
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Some flowers in the collection look very much like butterflies. It is almost as if the carver did not yet know what the final result should look like. Some look like butterflies, others are clearly flowers. This is one of those enigmas. This type of flower is not depicted in professor Cheng Te-k’un’s book ‘Jade Flowers and Floral Patterns in Chinese Decorative Art ‘.
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