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A SPINACH-GREEN JADE RUYI
18th/19th century
Carved with archaistic scrolls forming a wide shallow taotie mask on
the sceptre head, a chilong with lingzhi clambering in high relief along
the shaft and the tip with further archaistic scroll motifs, the underside
smoothly curved and undecorated.
31.5cm (12 3/8in) long.
£5,000 - 7,000
CNY48,000 - 68,000
HK$59,000 - 82,000
Provenance
Christie’s, London, 8 December 1980, lot 334.
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