SCEPTRE RUYI EN BRONZE DORE

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE

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SCEPTRE RUYI EN BRONZE DORE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE
De forme élégamment incurvée, le manche est finement ciselé d'une multitude de calebasses parmi des rinceaux feuillagés. La tête en forme de lingzhi est agrémentée d'un grand phénix volant au-dessus d'un qilin.
Longueur: 38 cm. (15 in.)

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A GILT-BRONZE 'DOUBLE-GOURD' RUYI SCEPTER
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

Gourds and melons have long been a popular subject with Chinese painters and craftsmen working in the Chinese decorative arts. Terese Tse Bartholomew has noted in Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2006, p. 62, no. 3.3.4., the fact that the plant has a long stem, along which grow differently sized fruits, all containing many seeds, makes it an ideal symbol for ceaseless generations of descendants. The long thin vine (mandai) provided a rebus for wandai, 'ten thousand generations'.

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