A PINK TOURMALINE `TOGGLE` SNUFF BOTTLE

Lot 826
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ID 718464
Lot 826 | A PINK TOURMALINE 'TOGGLE' SNUFF BOTTLE
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$ 3 000 – 5 000
A PINK TOURMALINE 'TOGGLE' SNUFF BOTTLE

LATE QING DYNASTY-REPUBLIC PERIOD

Of flattened, rounded shape, carved on one side with a circular and a square belt attachment, one with a seal reading guxi tianzi (an emperor of advanced age), the other with a Qianlong four-character yu ti seal. The reverse is inscribed with an imperial poem composed by the Qianlong emperor in 1774.

2 3⁄16 in. (5.5 cm.) high, jade stopper







Provenance

Albert Pyke Collection.

Rita Reif Collection.

Christie's New York, 18 October 1993, lot 112.

Rachelle R. Holden Collection, New York.





Literature

R. Holden, Rivers and Mountains Far From the World - The Rachelle R. Holden Collection, A Personal Commentary, New York, 1994, pp. 348-349, no. 156.
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