A LIGHT WOOD LINGZHI-SHAPED RUYI SCEPTER China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century The head of the scepter carved as a lingzhi fungus, the grasp with a branch of four fungus. Original red and yellow cotton thread attached to the end of the grasp. Bearing an handwritten old collector label reading Mme RIMSKY KORSAKOF. L: 31,5 cm Provenance: > Private Collection; > Mrs. Rimsky Korsakof, 19th century (according to label). Lingzhi (灵芝), also known as the glossy ganoderma, is the sacred fungus of immortality that grows on the trunks or roots of trees including the pine. Lingzhi is referred to as the fungus of immortality. Madame Rimsky Korsakof, the wife of the world-renowned Russian composer (1844-1908), is known because of her portrait painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter in 1864 and housed in the Musée d'Orsay under the inventory number RF 235. 轻木灵芝形如意权杖 中国，清朝，19世纪