CHINA - 19th century
Nephrite medallion carved and openwork in the form of a flower decorated with a red stone cabochon in its center, among foliage and ruyi, surrounded by five flowers including four coral pearls as pistils fixed on gilded copper florets, the whole attached to a gilded copper plate forming flowers and butterflies on its perimeter. (Missing a coral pearl on a flower). Diam. 6,7 cm.