Carved Boxwood Lingzhi Ruyi Sceptre

• Boxwood - Boxwood is a hard, yellow coloured, close grained timber. In the 19th century it was often used for inlays, especially stringing, because of its contrasting colour to the darker timbers of the carcase. Stringing is the inlay of a narrow strip of veneer of a lighter colour, such as boxwood along or close to the edges of an object that has been veneered in a darker timber such as mahogany.
  
  Because of its fine grain and resistnce to splitting or chipping it has also been used for treen, turnings, carvings and other small wooden items, such as chess pieces.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• Chinese sceptres - Buddhist ruyi sceptres, other materials 28
• Chinese sculpture - wooden carvings, root wood, box wood etc 372
• Chinse sculpture - boxwood carvings and sculpture 109
• religious objects, oriental - Buddhist ruyi sceptres, various materials 27