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PROPERTY FROM THE HAOXIXUETANG COLLECTION

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A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT IMPERIAL INSCRIBED BAMBOO-

VENEER RUYI

INSCRIBED QIANLONG YUTI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The sceptre has a wooden core and is covered overall with a light brown bamboo veneer.
The head is inlaid in dark brown bamboo veneer with a pair of bats flanking a shou-
character roundel on a ground of incised clouds. The mid-section is similarly inlaid with
three further bats around a shou character against incised clouds. The handle is inlaid with
archaic scrolls. The reverse is incised with an Imperial poem followed by two seal marks
‘gu’ and ‘xiang’.
17 ¬ in. (45 cm.) long, Japanese wood box

HK$7,000,000-9,000,000 US$910,000-1,200,000

PROVENANCE

Acquired in Osaka in 1999

清乾隆 御題詩竹黃五福捧壽如意

銘文：文心德裕賦，禪意皎然詩。天然尚有節，全無側出枝。羅公術終幻，僧紹賜真宜。獨喜清
談處，如逢君子時。乾隆御題。

鈐印：古；香

來源
1999 年購於大阪

Qing Gaozong (Qianlong) Yuzhi Shiwen Quanji
御製詩文集

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