19TH CENTURY

細節

A JADEITE AND RUBY-INSET GILT-BRONZE RUYI SCEPTER
19TH CENTURY
The lingzhi-shaped head inlaid with a lotus plant, with mottled green and white jadeite leaves and ruby blossoms and bud, the curved gilt-bronze shaft crisply cast with the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang), all ribbon-tied and separated by a lotus spray, with a loop at the tip
11¼ in. (31.1 cm.) long, box

來源

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.

拍品專文

This ruyi scepter belongs to a group which employed colorful hardstone inlay and gilt-metal to create a lush, rich effect. Several scepters of this type are illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Ju-i Scepters in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1974, nos. 36, 40 and 42, as well as 21, which has a gilded redwood body. Numbers 40 and 42, especially, have carved gemstones representing various auspicious fruits and flowers, similar to the present example.