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This appears to be a Tibetan brass or bronze bottle with cap embellished in coral, turquoise and other stones. This style is meant to be worn like a necklace. You'll find others in the archives of liveauctioneers.com (just search "Tibet snuff"), though most seen in recent auctions don't appear to have the kind of authentic age this one exhibits.
The mottled red bottle in the background, in case you aren't already aware, is a coveted type of bottle made of "realgar" glass (or "realgar" style glass), which by the original formula got its color from an arsenic sulfide mineral called "Ruby Sulphur".
Best regards,
Bill H.
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