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9/2/2020 Important Chinese Art | Sotheby's

Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 677

A PALE PI NK AND GREEN TOURMALINE 'BADGERS' PENDANT, QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH
CENTURY
Estimate: 8,000 - 12,000 USD

A PALE PINK AND GREEN TOURMALINE 'BADGERS' PENDANT
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
清十八 / 十九世紀 碧璽雕雙歡珮

charmingly carved in openwork as a pair of badgers arranged head to tail, the natural coloring of the stone cleverly utilized with
one badger a pale pink and the other a yellow-green, surmounted by a bat with wings spread

Length 2 in., 5.2 cm

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