A carved cinnabar lacquer ruyi scepter


Late Qing/Republic periodDepicting the Three Stars of Happiness on the cloud-collar scepter head, a bat suspending a chime and twin fish on the oval plaque at the center and a peony and garden rock plaque at the tip, each plaque showing a diamond diaper background repeating across the curving handle itself behind strap work and vegetal scrolls in raised relief, the reverse finished in black lacquer (age cracks repair).19 1/2in (49.5cm) long