Fine Chinese Paintings & Works of Art - 21st May 2019
Lot 52
A RARE CHINESE SILVER AND GOLD INLAID IRON RUYI-SCEPTRE 16TH/17TH CENTURY The shaft decorated...
Estimate £4,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £12000
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Description
A RARE CHINESE SILVER AND GOLD INLAID IRON RUYI-SCEPTRE
16TH/17TH CENTURY
The shaft decorated with seal script characters and geometric fylfot patterns, the head cast in relief as a lingzhi, with interlocking T-shaped designs to the edges, 73cm, 1.7kg.
Provenance: from a Welsh private collection, acquired in Abergavenny in the 1950s.
Cf. Sydney L Moss Ltd, The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, no.38 for a similar ruyi-sceptre.