Chinese Carved Amethyst Sceptre Head

QING DYNASTY, 1616-1911 AD

4 1/4" (455 grams, 11.5 cm including stand).

A carved and polished amethyst sceptre head in the form of a jui-i or sacred fungus (for longevity) with graduated ribbing to the outer edge, two scrolls to the upper face and intersecting arcs to the reverse; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Provenance

Ex Pickard collection, Surrey, UK; thence by descent 1978; with a typed and signed explanatory letter from Soame Jenyns, Deputy Keeper of the Deparment of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum, dated 1st June 1962.

CONDITION

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LOT 0405

Chinese Carved Amethyst Sceptre Head

Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,146

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