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A RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER RUYI
Estimate
(Set Currency)
    HK$700,000 - HK$900,000
  • ($90,596 - $116,481)

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Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A RARE PAIR OF IMPERIAL CARVED CINNABAR LACQUER RUYI
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Both formed with characteristic arched handles, each shaft carved with pairs of Daoist emblems, anbaxiang, divided at the mid-section with a vase containing three spear-like ornaments within a bracket-lobed panel, one upturned terminal decorated with Shoulao, God of Longevity, walking beside a deer, followed by an attendant bearing peaches on a tray in a mountain landscape scene, the other terminal similarly decorated with Xiwangmu, Queen Mother of the West, bearing the 'Peach of Immortality', walking beside a phoenix, and followed by her attendant holding a fan; each ruyi fitting into a conforming silk mount within a hardwood presentation box, the hexagonal cover with each facet of glass panel, inserted onto an elaborate openwork galleried stand
21 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (54 x 30 cm.), presentation box
17 1/18 in. (43.4 cm.), ruyi (2)


清乾隆 剔紅賀壽圖如意一對配木禮盒

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Lot Notes

The Daoist longevity theme employed by the use of both Shoulao and Xiwangmu, Queen Mother of the West, who in mythology resides in the Western Paradise where peaches were thought to provide immortality, suggests that this pair of ruyi was probably offered in a presentation box as a birthday gift.

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