Featured Soapstone brushwasher dish & double? vase piece - color? age?

This piece is marked CHINA on the back. It appears to be one piece & from what I have learned is a brushwasher dish & a double vase.

It is 4 1/4" to the top of the smaller vase & is 4 3/4" across by 2 1/2" front to back.

Is there a name for this coloring of soapstone? Any guesses as to age of the piece?



Thanks for any & all advice or opinions!!

 

I love how the leaves float in the air above the bowl.

 

I would call it mottled brown, but this place has some names for soapstones colors, whether they a generally recognized I don't know.
https://www.sculpturehouse.com/s-268-soapstone.aspx I'm sure other members will have suggestions too.

 

Thanks @KikoBlueEyes!!

I like that as a descriptive key word.

 

@Mat seems to have a collection. Maybe he can chime in.

 

Hi, I really don't know how to date this, a lot of those seem to have been made in the late 19th / early 20th c, but later too, and the style has not changed much...

 

Thanks so much for giving this a try.

 

I use this label history as a reference and it matches @Mat 's age range - see chart at bottom. I don't see it as an absolute indicator but since it has the name "China" in the chart as 1891-1949 or after 1978, it seems to jive. http://www.coxsackie.com/reference/cooaadt.htm
Check the bottom for wear. Soft stone is easy to damage.

 

@KikoBlueEyes @Mat

I appreciate both of your input!!

I just thought it to be an unusual piece, both in color & form, from what usually comes through the auction house. It came out of a local estate that has yielded some interesting pieces. So for $10 I thought I would give it a shot.

We will see what the ebay buyers out there think.