Featured Interesting Ashtray,I Found Today...ID Help??

Any information appreciated 4"x 3"...Thanks

 

Carved agate? Lotus petal? Maybe it didn't start as an ashtray.

 

I think that is a good possibility.

Stone looks like Jade - or one of the many stones called jade. The bottom metal looks like some of the things Japan did back in the 50s/60s

 

Taking that back.

Just noticed the nice floral pattern. Maybe Italy.

 

Nice Art Nouveau/Rococo vibe to it. I like it.

 

I didn't reply well before.

The "jade" looks like Chinese jade. Carved in a lotus blossom shape.
I think the base was added later as suggested by More.

Similar to this brush washer - copied from Ruby Lane.
https://www.rubylane.com/item/760156-V-1625/Chinese-blue-green-jade-brush-wash
I think their price is too high.

 

I agree, a beautiful Chinese lotus leaf brushwasher that has been turned into an ashtray. The stone looks like chalcedony to me.
It will be worth more as a brushwasher, but I suppose the cigarette rest could serve as a brush rest.

 

Absolutely!!! The brush washer is nicely carved in calcedony .
It seems a company (?) mounted chinese artefacts (old or newish) in the mid 20th century years for occidentals.
I have a soft translucent stone double peaches with leaves pin dish mounted with beads as feet and a tiny elephant as decor, and have seen this same kind of sloppy mounting on several other pieces in years.

 

A strange marriage, but much cuter than an ashtray. I would have bought that, just for the quirkiness of it.

What, no kyratisation on the missing bead foot? Kyra, are you feeling ok?

 

Not found convenient bead yet and not sure what I want to make with it (I hoped from the bad pics of the listing I may get a jade piece... for 5€...)

 

I know, it is a gamble which can turn out wonderfully. But 5€ is not bad at all.

 

I called it an ashtray..It looks like an ashtray....But,it is a brushwasher & I will,from now on, call it a brushwasher!....The rest does work much better with a brush,than a cigarette....Thanks AJ & everyone else,for your help

 

The way it is now it is definitely an ashtray. The stone, without the metal frame, was once a brushwasher. Brushes would rest on a separate brush rest, like this one:

 

I would rather,it be a brushwasher

 

Brushwasher it is then. With a very nifty built-in brushrest.