Detail View: National Palace English: X-shaped gilt ru-yi scepter with jade inlays inscribed with the Xi characters
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Work ID:
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M010F0002
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Title:
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X-shaped gilt ru-yi scepter with jade inlays inscribed with the Xi characters
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Creation Date:
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Qing Dynasty
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Start Year Date:
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A.D.1644
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End Year Date:
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A.D.1911
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Dynasty:
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63 Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1644~1911)
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Creation Place:
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China
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Measurements:
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Length: 43.8 cm; Width(head): 9.25 cm; Height: 8.8 cm
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Material:
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Jade
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Form:
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Ru-yi scepter
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Type:
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Ru-yi scepters
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Repository:
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The National Palace Museum, Taipei
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Description:
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Two Ruyi overlap and form an X shape; each has three inlays. The cloud-styled heads and the bulged middle are inlaid with white jades, whose shape resembles a round flower with eight pedals. The tips are inlaid also with white jades, and shaped into an elliptical flower with eight pedals. All jades are embossed with the character xi, which means double happiness. The jades sit on an inlay stand that has two layers and is decorated with chased flowers and gourds. On it, auspicious wishes in kai-shu (chancery script style) are written. Some examples are abundant descendants, wealth and fortune, prosperity and fertility. The stem bulges in the middle, and is decorated with a pair of dragons, a phoenix, and lingzhi painted in wucai enamels. The background is chased fully with the Swastika, (pronounced "wan" in Chinese), a mystical Buddhist emblem that means good fortune and virtue found often in the Buddhist Classics. On the back, the head is inscribed with a star-shaped gold stamp of the name of a restaurant, Jinhualou. The characters form a circle and in the middle carved with a shuen-shu (seal style) character, sheng, which means life or birth. Another rectangular stamp is carved and inscribed: "silver of standard purity." Both Ruyi are attached with a pair of yellow tassels at the tip.
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ImageV ID:
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M010F0002AS003
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Rights:
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Lee & Lee Communications
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