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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 5, 2016 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Important Chinese Art | 3662 | $****** - ****** | A SUPERB YELLOW SERPENTINE-INLAID CARVED IVORY 'TRIBUTE BEARERS' RUYI SCEPTRE |
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52.5 cm (20.67 in)
Collection of Sir William Seeds KCMG (1882-1973), British diplomat and ambassador to Russia and Brazil.
Christie's London, 18th May 2012, lot 1191
comprising three greenish-yellow gemstone plaques set in an ivory frame forming the head, the mid-shaft ornament and the terminal respectively, each carved with various figures, including one holding a whisk, one bamboo shoots, another a double-gourd, the plaques surrounded by a carved ivory foliate border, the ivory frame further meticulously carved in high relief along the curved shaft above and below the mid-section ornament with crowds of foreign tribute bearers, all amidst a rocky landscape scene detailed with verdant vegetation and architectural elements such as a bridge and a pavilion, further decorated with an elephant and a camel supporting tributes, a figure rendered with a wheelbarrow loaded with tributes, the underside of the head carved with archaistic ruyi-shaped scrolls, the reverse of the shaft decorated in low relief with a scene picked out with cranes and deer amidst a tranquil landscape of dense lingzhi-shaped clouds, jagged rocks, verdant vegetation and running water, the edges bordered with key-fret bands, the end pierced with an aperture to thread a tassel, stand
