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AN UNUSUAL SMALL BOXWOOD RUYI SCEPTER
The scepter is carved as a long bamboo root with
smaller nodes and roots along its side. The head of
the scepter continues around to become the body
of a chilong whose head is formed as the terminus
of the bamboo root shaft.
12 in. (30.5 cm.) long
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
Wellington Wang Collection; Sotheby’s, New
York, 19-20 March 2007, lot 650.
Property from the Lai Family Collection.
EXHIBITED:
Palm Universe - Ruyi Scepters from the Wellington
Wang Collection, National History Museum,
Taipei, 2004, no.130.
黃楊木雕螭龍紋如意
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