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    Asian Decorative Arts

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    13 September 1999

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    Lot 44

    TWO RUYI HEAD SCEPTRE

    19TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    USD 4,025

    Estimate

    USD 1,800 - USD 2,200

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    TWO RUYI HEAD SCEPTRE
    19th century
    A celdon jade sceptre with chestnut inclusions, carved in low relief with bats flying amid fruiting peach trees above iris and lingzhi on the handle; a boxwood sceptre carved in the form of a lingzhi branch
    Largest 17 in. (43.2 cm.) long (2)

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