A FAMILLE ROSE AND GILT-DECORATED RUYI SCEPTER

19TH CENTURY

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A FAMILLE ROSE AND GILT-DECORATED RUYI SCEPTER
19TH CENTURY
The center of the ruyi head is molded in openwork with a full-face dragon leaping amidst clouds, and further convex openwork panels are on the middle section and end of the handle; that in the middle also with a dragon amidst clouds, and the one at the end with a flaming pearl. The handle is further decorated with foliate sprays and foliate meander reserved on a pale yellowish-white ground, and the reverse is in turquoise enamel.
16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) long, silk cord

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Nils Nessim Antiquities, no. 2693 (according to label).

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A similar enameled porcelain ruyi scepter, dated to the Daoguang period, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 April 2004, lot 250. As with the present scepter, the 'plaques' are pierced and convex, and the foliate decoration on the handle is quite similar and reserved on a pale yellow ground. Another scepter, with a Qianlong mark, turquoise-enameled 'plaques', and foliate sprays on a bright yellow ground on the handle, is illustrated in Selected Porcelain of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 337, no. 71. Also illustrated, p. 337, no. 72, is another scepter decorated in iron red, gold and blue enamel.