A PAIR OF LARGE PALE GREENISH GREY JADE RUYI SCEPTERS CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY The handles carved in mirror image with a blossoming prunus branch and a bat grasping wannianqiang ( rhodea japonica ), a pun for "ten thousand years", in its mouth, and the ruyi -form heads carved with a phoenix perched on a lingzhi below a fruiting peach tree 18 in. (45.8 cm.) long Provenance Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1985. The Irving Collection, no. 444.
A PAIR OF LARGE PALE GREENISH GREY JADE RUYI SCEPTERS CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY The handles carved in mirror image with a blossoming prunus branch and a bat grasping wannianqiang ( rhodea japonica ), a pun for "ten thousand years", in its mouth, and the ruyi -form heads carved with a phoenix perched on a lingzhi below a fruiting peach tree 18 in. (45.8 cm.) long Provenance Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1985. The Irving Collection, no. 444.
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