A CHINESE BAMBOO 'SANDUO' RUYI SCEPTRE

A CHINESE BAMBOO 'SANDUO' RUYI SCEPTRE
QING DYNASTY

Carved in openwork with entwined leafy branches bearing pomegranate, peach and finger citron fruits, 29cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Dr John William Hawksley Grice OBE (1891–1976) and thence by descent.

For another bamboo ruyi sceptre depicting the 'sanduo' formerly from the Grice loan, see the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no. FE.21-1976, illustrated by C Clunas, Chinese Carving, p.50, fig.52.

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來源：John William Hawksley Grice 醫生(1891–1976)收藏，之後由家人繼承。