A SILVER-WIRE-INLAID BRONZE RUYI SCEPTRE

17TH CENTURY

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A SILVER-WIRE-INLAID BRONZE RUYI SCEPTRE
17TH CENTURY
The long slender handle terminating in a ruyi head and inlaid on top in silver wire with a twelve-character inscription and on the back with a thirteen-character inscription in two lines, both in archaic characters, the back also cast with the four-character seal mark of Hu Wenming
17¾ in. (45 cm.) long

Lot Essay

For a similarly inlaid parcel-gilt bronze ruyi sceptre bearing a six-character mark of Hu Wenming, Yunqian Hu Wenming zuo, ('made by Hu Wenming of Yunqian'), see Emperor, Scholar, Artisan, Monk, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1984, no. 126. The author notes that within the literati world ruyi sceptres were often presented on one's sixtieth birthday as a wish for longevity.

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