Vintage GUMP\'s Serpentine Jade &Precious Stone Cloisonne Floral Fruit Basket-MCt For Sale

This vintage item is in used but in VERY GOOD condition. Item is a Gump\'s sculpture depicting a handled basket of fruit and flowers with leaves. Pomegranites and other fruits are serpentine jade, carnelian, rose quartz, colored alabaster, and the leaves are dark glass or dark green serpentine jade. The basket and handle are metal covered in cloisonne enamel. Stems are thread wrapped around wire. It isvintagemid-20th century and possibly hand carved.It has been displayed in an indoor display case only and is cabinet sized.Item is in very good condition with no cracks, dents, scratches, or chips anywhere that I can see on the fruits or leaves and there is no damaged or loose wire on the stems or vine on the basket handle.The cloisonne basket is in good shape with no chips, scratches, or dents, but the gilt trim around the basket and handle has some minor scratching consistent with the age of the item. (Please see pictures as they are part of the description; I try to take the most accurate and helpful pictures I can).Specific maker is unknown but it was made in China and imported here to the Western market by Gump\'s. There is no Gump\'s sticker-this has long since peeled away, and Gump\'s did not stamp their jade sculptures with their mark on the bottom since they did not have their sculptures manufactured for them (They sent their buyers to purchase them in Beijing or Hong Kong) . Dimensions are7\" H x 7.5\" L x 5\" circumference, so it is cabinet sized. This issuitable for any collector of Xiuyan jade sculpture art or Gump\'s items. This item comes from a smoke-free environment. Not intended for outdoor use. Please see below for further information:During the mid-20th century, the luxury department store, Gump\'s, specialized heavily in high-end Asian decorative arts. Its famous Jade Room made the retailer a primary destination for imported Chinese hardstone trees, glass floral arrangements, and cloisonné objets d\'art.Their business model relied heavily on sourcing directly from existing regional workshops rather than commissioning custom factory runs. Renowned buyers like A.L. Gump and later executives regularly traveled directly to trade markets in Hong Kong, Canton (Guangzhou), and Beijing. They hand-selected high-quality, pre-existing traditional sculptures and decorative items from local master carvers and workshops to ship back to San Francisco.Because these pieces were authentic Chinese export market items rather than proprietary store fabrications, they did not feature cast-in maker\'s marks or stamps from the department store itself. When Gump\'s did brand these pieces, it was strictly through temporary paper price tags or foil adhesive stickers added in the San Francisco stockroom prior to display in the Jade Room. Those frail stickers almost always flaked off or were peeled away over the decades, leaving the piece completely anonymous, high-quality handiwork on this basket—from the meticulous wiring of the stone leaves to the vibrant cloisonné base—perfectly aligns with the exact type of curated export art their buyers sought out.