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Fine Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Quadrangular Red Cliffs Vase
Porcelain
China
Kangxi mark and period, ca: Third quarter 17th century
Height: 20 ¼ inches (51.5 cm.)
description
Decorated with scenes and verses from the Ode to the Red Cliff by the Song poet Su Dongpo. Finely painted in Ming style with beautiful calligraphy of the two poems.
Height: 20 ¼ inches (51.5 cm.)
Ex: Private American Collection
Previously in an English Collection
It is very rare to encounter an example of this type with an Imperial mark. A similar vase is in the Shanghai Museum, Kangxi Porcelain Wares, 1998, pp. 42 and 43; another now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Julia Curtis, Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century, 1995, p. 84, no. 26.
A brushpot with this decoration and bearing the Kangxi reign mark is in Palace Museum, Beijing
Height: 20 ¼ inches (51.5 cm.)
Ex: Private American Collection
Previously in an English Collection
It is very rare to encounter an example of this type with an Imperial mark. A similar vase is in the Shanghai Museum, Kangxi Porcelain Wares, 1998, pp. 42 and 43; another now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Julia Curtis, Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century, 1995, p. 84, no. 26.
A brushpot with this decoration and bearing the Kangxi reign mark is in Palace Museum, Beijing
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