Two hardstone brush washers

Two hardstone brush washers
Qing dynasty
The first of lapis lazuli, carved with young dragons crawling over the join between two deeply hollowed lotus blossoms issuing from a common stem; the second of agate, undercut as a flattened pomegranate with deeply hollowed interior emerging from leafy stems at one end, the pale gray-brown matrix showing russet patches.
4 3/4 and 4 1/2in (12 and 11.5cm) long (2).