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A CARVED HARDWOOD RUYI SCEPTRE AND A RECTANGULAR BOX INLAID WITH MOTHER OF PEARL AND HARDSTONE INLAID 20世紀初木雕如意及嵌百寶方盒兩件 China, early 20th century. The ruyi finely carved in relief faces of figure, with a carved dark wood stand; the box’s cover featuring three scholars in a garden. L(ruyi): 40cm

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A CARVED HARDWOOD RUYI SCEPTRE AND A RECTANGULAR BOX INLAID WITH MOTHER OF PEARL AND HARDSTONE INLAID 20世紀初木雕如意及嵌百寶方盒兩件 China, early 20th century. The ruyi finely carved in relief faces of figure, with a carved dark wood stand; the box’s cover featuring three scholars in a garden. L(ruyi): 40cm

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Starting price 250 GBP

Sceptre probably used by a shaman priest during war ceremonies. It is carved with a zoomorphic figure of the upright monkey god holding a kero with a trophy head in its hands, its open mouth symbolically sticking out its tongue (a sign of defiance and victory). Wood, old patina and marks of time. Chimu, Chancay, Peru, 1100 to 1400 A.D. Dimensions: 65 X 6 cm Provenance : former collection of Ralf Kotalla, Stuttgart, founder of the thermoluminescence laboratory of the same name. Origine Auction, Paris, Saturday October 29, 2016, catalog number 89.

Estim. 1 500 - 3 000 EUR

IKKO: A RARE INLAID WOOD NETSUKE OF KIKUJIDO BENEATH A MOONLIT SKY IKKO: A RARE INLAID WOOD NETSUKE OF KIKUJIDO BENEATH A MOONLIT SKY By Hasegawa Ikko, signed Ikko 一光 Japan, early to mid-19 th century, Edo period (1615-1868) Of quadrilobed, manju-style, low table form, finely carved depicting a recumbent Kikujido wearing a mugwort leaf skirt, holding a brush, next to three reishi sprouts, all beneath a cloudy sky with a full moon. The moon and brush are inlaid with mother-of-pearl while the reishi and leaf skirt are inlaid with green stained antler and translucent horn respectively; the eyes are minute inlays of dark buffalo horn. Chrysanthemum leaves decorate the sides, which are carved in openwork, the underside pierced with a single floral himotoshi. Signed to the back IKKO on a mother-of-pearl inlaid tablet. LENGTH 4.1 cm Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and remnants of gold and red lacquer. Some wear to the cord hole. Provenance: From a noted private collection in Geneva, Switzerland, assembled since the 1960s, and thence by descent. An important part of this collection was on permanent loan and was exhibited over several decades at the Asia-Africa Museum in Geneva. Kikujido (the chrysanthemum boy) appears in Makurajido and remained youthful even with the passing of 700 years after writing the lines of the Lotus Sutra, graciously gifted to him by the Emperor, on the leaves of a chrysanthemum, when the dew drops from the chrysanthemum became an elixir for immortality. Literature comparison: Compare a related manju netsuke in the form of a nyoi sceptre, signed Ikko and with similar use of inlays, illustrated in Meinertzhagen, Frederick / Lazarnick, George (1986) MCI, Part A, p. 224.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

A CHINESE SILVER AND JADE HAND-MIRROR AND A CHINESE CLOISONNÉ RUYI SCEPTRE (2) Sceptre 20.5cm long

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