RUYI SCEPTER LINED WITH SERPENTINE PLATES
China, 20th century
With single wooden handle. The heads as well as the central socket are equipped with
serpentine / bacon stone plaques carved with various auspicious designs
of which peaches of longevity, flowered vases and digitized lemons / citrons / hands of
Buddha (restorations in the body part as well as splinters, veins and
natural inclusions in the stone).
L (total of the sceptre): 50.5 cm - Dimensions (the largest plate): H: 10.5
cm - l : 11,5 cm

A WOODEN RUYI SCEPTER GARNISHED WITH SOAPSTONE PLAQUES
China, 20th century