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THE PROPERTY OF MARCHANT, EST. 1925HE PROPERTY OF MARCHANT, EST. 1925
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A JADE-INSET CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL RUYI SCEPTERJADE-INSET CLOISONNÉ ENA
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QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)IANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
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The ruyi head is inset with a white jade plaque carved and pierced with a bat above a peony fower he ruyi head is inset with a white jade a bat above a peony fower
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surrounded by tendrils within a gilt and blue enamel key-fret border. The handle is fnely enameled urrounded by tendrils within a gilt and e handle is fnely enameled
o on the top and the underside with fowers in shaded blue, yellow and red and linked foliate and archaistic n the top and the underside with fowe and linked foliate and archaistic
s scrolls, those on the top between white jade plaques in the center and at the end, both plaques carved crolls, those on the top between white he end, both plaques carved
a and pierced with bats, the bats on the center plaque fanking a shou character. The gilded sides are nd pierced with bats, the bats on the c ter. The gilded sides are
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inlaid with blue enamel archaic scrolls and the tip is pierced for the attachment of a silk tassel.nlaid with blue enamel archaic scrolls ent of a silk tassel.
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16√ in. (43 cm.) long6√ in. (43 cm.) long
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$30,000-40,00030,000-40,000
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PROVENANCEROVENANCE
The Lever Collection, acquired prior to 1995.he Lever Collection, acquired prior to
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Christie’s London, 10 May 2016, lot 32.hristie’s London, 10 May 2016, lot 32.
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Ruyi scepters were popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly to be given as gifts on auspicious uyi scepters were popular in the 18th
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occasions such as birthdays. They were made in a wide variety of materials, however cloisonné examples ccasions such as birthdays. They we r cloisonné examples
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were more typically inset with openwork gilt bronze, such as the ruyi scepter in the Royal Scottish ere more typically inset with openwo oyal Scottish
Museum in Edinburgh, illustrated by Sir H. Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, useum in Edinburgh, illustrated by S
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London, 1962, pl. 69B. The inset jade plaques of the present scepter are very unusual.ondon, 1962, pl. 69B. The inset jade
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One example of a jade-inset ruyi scepter in the Phoenix Art Museum was included in the exhibition ne example of a jade-inset ruyi scept
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Cloisonné, Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, 2011, and illustrated in the loisonné, Chinese Enamels from the Y
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Catalogue, p. 293, no. 136. A cloisonné and gilt bronze ruyi scepter is illustrated ibid. p. 293, atalogue, p. 293, no. 136. A cloisonné
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n no. 135, and another example sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1559.o. 135, and another example sold at C
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