A PALE GREYISH-GREEN JADE RUYI SCEPTER

18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A PALE GREYISH-GREEN JADE RUYI SCEPTER
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The ruyi head is carved in low relief with a scene of Shoulao holding a peach and accompanied by an attendant holding his staff as they stand on a bridge and look towards a stag standing below a pine tree. The arched handle is carved with a scene of a bird grasping a fruiting peach branch standing beside a further pine tree and also with a boy carrying lingzhi standing on a ledge above the pierced ruyi-shaped tip. There are vaporous clouds and a bat carved on the underside, and there are areas of added russet color.
16 in. (40.7 cm.) long

Provenance

Lizzadro Collection, Chicago, Illinois, acquired prior to 1960.

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Lot Essay

All of the motifs and imagery carved on this ruyi scepter, as well as the scepter itself, are symbols of longevity, making the scepter an appropriate gift for a sixtieth birthday.
Compare a white jade ruyi scepter carved with a similar figural scene, shown in situ at the Forbidden City, Beijing, illustrated by Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing, and Lu Yanzhen in Daily Life in the Forbidden City, Hong Kong, 1985, fig. 174.

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