AN EMBELLISHED MUGHAL WHITE JADE PIPE MOUTHPIECE
18TH CENTURY
The body of cylindrical tubular form, hollow at one end, with narrowed waist and an upturned flower at the other supporting a globular upper section rising to a tapered tip forming the mouthpiece, decorated around the base and to the flower petals with gold-wire inlaid with pear-shaped emeralds, the well-polished stone of an even pure white tone
4 in. (10.2 cm.) long
来源
An important European private collection formed in the 19th century by a Russian nobleman and diplomat