CHINE, FIN DE LA DYNASTIE QING (1644-1911)

Details

RARE SCEPTRE RUYI EN JADE BLANC SCULPTE
CHINE, FIN DE LA DYNASTIE QING (1644-1911)
De forme courbée, la tête en forme de lingzhi, ornée d'un éléphant caparaçonné, entouré de six Emblèmes Bouddhiques, surmontée d'une chauve-souris aux ailes déployées, le manche agrémenté de deux autres Emblèmes Bouddhiques et d'une jardinière, l'extrémité rehaussée d'une chauve-souris
Longueur: 40,1 cm. (15. 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Property from an important Swiss collection, acquired in the 1950's

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Further details

A FINE CARVED WHITE JADE RUYI SCEPTRE
CHINA, LATE QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

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Lot Essay

Compare the present ruyi with three similar examples from the 18th century: one in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in Auspicious Ju-i Scepters of China, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1995, pl. 24, p. 224; the second illustrated by Marchant & Son in their catalogue 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Post-Archaic Chinese Jades from Private Collections, London, November 2000, no. 69; and the last one illustrated by R. Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 160.

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