QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE GILT-BRONZE INLAID LAPIS LAZULI 'BAJIXIANG' RUYI SCEPTRE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
21 7/16 in. (54.5 cm.) long

Provenance

Property of a Gentleman; offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 April 2004, lot 134

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Lot Essay

Compare to a ruyi of similar design, the head, shaft and terminal in dark blue on gold ground made of porcelain and measuring 53.6 cm. long, illustrated in Selected Porcelain of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1994, p. 337, pl. 72 (fig.1).

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