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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 6, 2016 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Emperors’ Playthings – a Connoisseur’s Collection | 3024 | $****** - ****** | AN EXCEPTIONAL INSCRIBED PALE GREEN JADE RUYI SCEPTRE |
sculpture
41.8 cm (16.46 in)
Jade
the large ruyi-shaped terminal decorated with a bat with outstretched wings and a ruyi-band enclosing a lush scene depicting chrysanthemum blooms issuing from behind pierced rockwork and tempestuous waves, the scene highlighted with a bat soaring amidst lingzhi cloud scrolls, the slender elegantly curved sceptre centred with an openwork panel in the form of a sinuous chilong clambering atop meandering scrollwork, the upper section of the shaft incised with a two-character yuzhi ('imperially made') inscription, the lower section with a further inscription wishing the recipient of the sceptre, possibly the Jiaqing Emperor, a harmonious rule and prosperous rule, signed minister Yong Xuan and followed by two seal marks, all above an outstretched bat, the underside with lingzhi cloud scrolls, the terminus of the sceptre pierced to thread a tassel, stand
