Lot 185

BLUE AND WHITE INSCRIBED SQUARE-SECTION 'ODE TO THE RED CLIFF' VASE








Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 16 May 2023 from 10:00 BST
£5,796
Description
青花題字赤壁故事圖方瓶
sturdily potted with tapering square sides, one side painted with the poet and statesman Su Shi (1037–1101) and two other scholars standing by a riverbank with a figure paddling a sampan boat in the river, the other side with a sampan full of scholars before a cliff, alternating with the Former and Later Odes to the Red Cliff
Dimensions
40.7cm high
Footnote
Note: Compare to a similar blue and white square-form vase, with similar composition of the design and painting, Kangxi mark and period, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, accession no. 2015.784.1







