AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE ROSE RUYI SCEPTER

19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE ROSE RUYI SCEPTER
19TH CENTURY
Modeled as an iron-red stem of lingzhi bearing nine ripe peaches of various sizes set amidst green and turquoise leaves, with a gilt-highlighted iron-red bat alighted on one peach
11¾ in. (30 cm.) long, wood stand

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1950s, and thence by descent within the family.

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Lot Essay

A slightly smaller (26.5 cm.) ruyi scepter of nearly identical shape, although covered in a pure white glaze and left undecorated, is illustrated in Auspicious Ju-I Scepters of China, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1995, p. 143, no. 70.

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