清乾隆 紫檀仿古萬壽鞘黃楊木刻詩劍

with a honey-brown boxwood blade of elongated tapering form, carved on both sides with a poem followed by two seal marks reading qin shu xiaosa and shanshui qingyin, fixed to a zitan hilt with a wide cross-guard and a flaring grip and pommel, the grip carved in low relief with a pair of confronting archaistic kui dragons, between bands of 'horse-hoof' motifs encircling the cross-guard and pommel, the zitan scabbard similarly carved with pairs of confronting archaistic kui dragons, below shou characters flanking a central band of 'horse-hoof' motifs

巴黎 Gerard Levy（1934-2016 年）收藏

題識：
休明瑞器，輔翼文功；匪侔結綠，豈伍青萍。
魍魎極迹，魑魅歲形；似矣寶之，百世永昌。
詩吟古調，琴弄無弦；幽人高致，興趣天然。
握斯瑜瑾，步武前賢；文光映斗，壯志彌堅。
「琴書瀟灑」、「山水清音」印

木劍，又稱「班劍」或「象劍」，始於晉，朝服帶劍。後用於儀仗，由武士佩持，天子以賜功臣。