Ceramic: implement

One ceramic sceptre or ruyi in the shape of a flattened spindle. Obverse and sides are glazed in blue and white; reverse is unglazed. Lower end is disk-shaped; middle section widens into oval-shape; upper end is shield-shaped. Glazed area of ruyi presents designs of animals and intricately patterned geometric borders.

Rewi Alley

Part of collection Alley gave to Canterbury Museum during Museum director Roger Duff's trip to China in 1956.

470x134mm (l x w)

C1956.300

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Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), copy