A WELL-CARVED SPINACH-GREEN JADE RUYI SCEPTRE

18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A WELL-CARVED SPINACH-GREEN JADE RUYI SCEPTRE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The ruyi head carved with a sinuous chilong with curling bifurcated tail peering inquisitively at a flaming pearl, a second chilong clambering along the arched handle carved as an undulating gnarled branch laden with clumps of lingzhi
12¼ in. (31.1 cm.) long

Provenance

Collection of Sir Hugh A. Ford.
The House of Jade, New York, January 1963.

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Lot Essay

Compare the green jade ruyi sceptre dated c. 1790 of similar shape, but carved with lilies, fruiting branches and lingzhi, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by M. Wilson, Chinese Jades, London, 2004, p. 92, no. 91. Like the present sceptre, one of the branches of the floral decoration loops around at the end of the shaft to create an aperture for the attachment of a silk cord.

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