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A BOXWOOD (HUANGYANGMU) RUYI SCEPTRE 18TH CENTURY L: 26.6 cm With a head carved in the form of lingzhi fungus and a twisting stem carved with smaller lingzhi fungi and knots. Ruyi means 'as you wish', and such sceptres were often given as gifts because of their associations with wishes for good fortune. Literature: Similar examples are illustrated in Little, Realm of the Immortals: Daoist in the Arts of China, no. 24, p.51, in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art; and in Tsang and Moss, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, no.6, p.42-3. For a bamboo example, see Ip and Tam, Chinese Bamboo Carving, Part I, no. 115, 116, p.364-7. See Wang, Wan and Lu, Daily Life in the Forbidden City, fig. 275, p. 191, for a portrait of an imperial consort of the Yongzheng Emperor holding such a ruyi scepter