Three fine jade carvings

Description:

India, 18th/19th c.
H. 4 - 11 cm
A leaf-shaped bowl with six small compartments, the back with leaf ornamentation in relief, a spherical knob; a box lid with lotus leaves in relief; lower part of a lidded box with leaf ornamentation, two fastening loops.
From the collection of art dealer and collector Saeed Motamed (1925-2013), collected since the 1950s, largely documented in a 1998 inventory with drawings and Persian descriptions. Partially documented in exhibition catalogs since the 1970s, see inventory no. 1980 and 1981, p. 232, and no. 1989, p. 233 - Minimal lines in the stone