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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1801786, member: 2844&quot;]Beautiful, Jal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it is a Chinese jade snuff bottle with a coral stopper. I would love to see the spoon, if it is still in the stopper. And the top of the coral branch please.</p><p>The jade is a pebble sourced from a river, possibly in Hetian/Khotan, with clever use of the natural russet &#039;skin&#039; for the ruyi mushroom shape.</p><p>It looks like it is meant to be an eggplant with a cricket?</p><p><br /></p><p>Snuff bottles were used like snuff boxes in the West. Most contained tobacco or a medicinal herb mixture. It is pretty difficult to get a chunk of opium out through that thin neck.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It is very nice quality, a good piece.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/f-jpg.240529/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/ff-jpg.240530/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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