[Tourmaline buckle]
Tourmaline buckle, clear, 5.5 cm long, 5.2 cm wide at most
The buckle is made of tourmaline inlaid on the silver Leister. Tourmaline is pink and transparent, with cotton locks in some parts. Silver torus double coin pattern, ring set. On the back of the silver holder are carved small bead patterns of “eternal life” and “eternal prosperity”, with the stamps of “Hongxing” and “foot pattern” next to them. In the middle are two “longevity” and two “bats” with thin silk rope patterns
Tourmaline is a mineral product. The raw ore is hexagonal transparent columnar crystal with glass luster. The color is mostly pink, and the most precious one is pink and transparent
Belt buckle is an ornament on the belt. It was popular in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, but it was mostly jade decoration, which was rarely used in the Qing Dynasty. The buckle made of tourmaline is particularly rare and precious.
![图片[1]-Tourmaline buckle-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qing dynasty/tapestry and embroidery/50589[1024].jpg)
![图片[2]-Tourmaline buckle-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qing dynasty/tapestry and embroidery/50590[1024].jpg "碧玺带扣背面")
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![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)
