A WHITE JADE-INLAID WOOD RUYI SCEPTER QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

inset with three jade plaques, the largest depicting a boy holding a sprig of peaches, the mid-section carved with a bat and an auspicious emblem, and the smallest with a bat and bough of peaches, Japanese wood box and cover, together with a spinach-green jade lingzhi ruyi scepter, Japanese wood box (5 pieces)

Acquired by the present owner's father in the 1980s.

Two of the jade plaques are detached from the scepter. There is a chip to the wooden edge of the larger terminal. The other scepter is in overall good condition.
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