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A STAINED OR LACQUERED Kagedo Gallery, Orcas, Washington.
BOXWOOD RUYI SCEPTER
18TH CENTURY LITERATURE

The scepter is carved in the form of S. Little, Spirit Stones of China, the Ian
lingzhi, with two caps making up the and Susan Wilson Collection of Chinese
head of the scepter, and two smaller Stones, Paintings, and Related Scholars’
caps below. Objects, Chicago, 1999, no. 49.

16 in. (40.6 cm.) long 清十八世紀 黃楊木雕靈芝如意

$6,000-8,000

1133 Objects, Chicago, 1999, no. 49.
M. Knight, ‘Scholar’s Objects in the Ian and Susan
A CARVED BAMBOO RUYI SCEPTER Wilson Collection’, Orientations, May 1999, p. 51, fg. 5.
18TH-19TH CENTURY
Compare with another carved bamboo ruyi scepter, illustrated
The scepter is carved in the form of lingzhi, with a large in Chinese Bamboo Carving, Part I, Hong Kong, 1978, p. 105,
cap as the head of the scepter, with several smaller caps no. 35.
below, and a silk tassel knotted through the other end.
The inscription on the top of the ftted Japanese box may
17 in. (43.2 cm.) long, inscribed Japanese box be translated as ‘An ancient bamboo ruyi in the shape of a
fungus’, and the reverse of the cover has an inscription that
$8,000-12,000 reads ‘Appreciated and inscribed on an autumn day in the
year of guimao (1903) during the Meiji reign, Kotani (or Kaya)’,
PROVENANCE with the seals Tomasa and Kotani (or Kaya).
清十八/十九世紀 竹雕靈芝如意
Kagedo Gallery, Orcas, Washington, 1993.

LITERATURE

S. Little, Spirit Stones of China, the Ian and Susan Wilson
Collection of Chinese Stones, Paintings, and Related Scholars’

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