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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 清十七至十八世紀 竹雕題字如意
AN INSCRIBED BAMBOO RUYI SCEPTRE
QING DYNASTY, 17TH – 18TH CENTURY
題識：
terminating in a rounded lingzhi-shaped head, the curved 無矣有哉。
shaft inscribed in archaic script with a long Buddhist 鑑悲誠而介冥福，實有望於觀音，堨亦葛。
inscription followed by a square seal reading Nan Laozi yin 南老子印。
(Seal of the Sage of the South), inscribed to the reverse with
a collector’s mark, the bamboo patinated to a rich reddish 來源：
brown tone 香港蘇富比2003年10月26日，編號85
26 cm, 10¼ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26th October 2003, lot 85.
HK$ 250,000-350,000
US$ 31,900-44,600
This piece is notable for its naturalistically carved lingzhi-
shaped head. A larger sceptre of this type was sold in our
London rooms, 14th December 1976, lot 233; and two
were sold in these rooms, the first with the shaft carved
in the form of bamboo, 8th October 2014, lot 3805; the
second incised with bats among clouds on the shaft, from
the Robert H. Blumenfield collection, illustrated in Ip Yee &
Laurence C.S. Tam Chinese Bamboo Carving, Part I, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, 1978, pl. 117, was sold 7th April 2015,
lot 3018. See also examples with elaborately carved shafts,
such as one illustrated ibid., pl. 116; and another included in
the exhibition Bamboo and Wood Carvings of China and the
East, Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1979, cat. no. 287.