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SCEPTRE RUYI EN BRONZE DORE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE
De forme élégamment incurvée, le manche est fnement ciselé
d’une multitude de calebasses parmi des rinceaux feuillagés. La
tête en forme de lingzhi est agrémentée d’un grand phénix volant
au-dessus d’un qilin.
Longueur: 38 cm. (15 in.)
€8,000-12,000 $9,400-14,000
£7,200-11,000
Gourds and melons have long been a popular subject with Chinese
painters and craftsmen working in the Chinese decorative arts.
Terese Tse Bartholomew has noted in Hidden Meanings in Chinese
Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2006, p. 62, no. 3.3.4., the
fact that the plant has a long stem, along which grow diferently
sized fruits, all containing many seeds, makes it an ideal symbol for
ceaseless generations of descendants. The long thin vine (mandai)
provided a rebus for wandai, ‘ten thousand generations’.
A GILT-BRONZE ‘DOUBLE-GOURD’ RUYI SCEPTER
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
清十八/十九世紀 鎏金銅葫蘆萬代紋如意
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