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88. A LARGE ORMOLU RUYI SCEPTRE INLAID WITH JADEITE
Qing dyn…
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88
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88. A LARGE ORMOLU RUYI SCEPTRE INLAID WITH JADEITE
Qing dyn…
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €5,000
Voluntary lot
Description
88. A LARGE ORMOLU RUYI SCEPTRE INLAID WITH JADEITE
Qing dynasty, late 19th century
A JADEITE-EMBELLISHED GILT-BRONZE RUYI-SCEPTRE
Qing Dynasty, late 19th century
Comprising three jadeite plaques each carved with scholars and boys in landscape settings, all set in a gilt-bronze frame ornately worked in relief on one side of the shaft with beribboned auspicious emblems, the reverse finely chased with large lotus blooms on feathery scrolling leafy stems.
52 cm (20 1/2 in.) long
Provenance:
Acquired from George Horan, London, in 1982.
A German family collection.
清 十九世紀末 鎏金銅嵌翡翠八吉祥如意
來源
於1982年得自倫敦 George Horan
德國家族收藏
Often presented as auspicious gifts to bring good fortune, ruyi sceptres were decorated using highly auspicious motifs such as the Eight Auspicious Emblems (bajixiang) on the shaft of the present sceptre demonstrate. The Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors were particularly fond of such sceptres and commissioned examples in a variety of materials as numerous examples made of jade, wood and gilt-metal in the Imperial collection demonstrate, see Evelyn S. Rawski and Jessica Rawson (eds.), China. The Three Emperors 1662-1795, London, 2005, pp. 366-369, cat.nos. 273-282. Compare this sceptre with a comparable example sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9 October 2007, lot 1328, and another example similarly inlaid with jadeite plaques, decorated with bats and auspicious fruit including peaches and finger citroen, sold Sotheby's New York, 26 and 27 March 1996, lot 59.
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