A WHITE JADE INLAID RUYI SCEPTER QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

the plain hardwood scepter inlaid with three white jade plaques, the largest carved with a bat in flight above a fruiting peach branch within a ruyi-shaped section, the middle carved with a peach cluster and a bat and the third carved with two peaches issuing from a leafy branch within a quatrelobed panel

Collection of Dr. Richard and Mrs. Mary Eckhardt acquired in Japan between 1947-1952 while Dr. Eckhardt was serving as a surgeon in the United States Army and thence by descent.

There are some minor nicks along the edges, otherwise all three jade sections of the ruyi are in good condition.
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