Lot 233
  • 233

A PINK TOURMALINE PENDANT QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Tourmaline
carved in layers of relief with a bat suspended from a double-gourd pendant amidst large furled leaves and prunus blossoms issuing from gnarled branches, the rich pink translucent stone pierced with a silk cord fastened with knotted seed pearls clustered around emerald-green jadeite

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co., London.
Collection of Lady Moya Melisende Browne Campbell (1892-c.1970), daughter of the sixth Marquess of Sligo.

Condition

In overall good condition, with minor wear to the mount and silk cord. The tourmaline with quartz-like inclusions.
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