A RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'RED CLIFF' VASE SIX CHARACTER KANGXI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD...

A RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'RED CLIFF' VASE

SIX CHARACTER KANGXI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1662-1722

The square-section tapered body inscribed on two sides with the two 'Odes to the Red Cliff' by the Song dynasty poet Su Dongpo (1037-1096), the other two sides finely painted with scenes illustrating the poet making the trip to the famous site with his friends, the flared neck with sprays of bamboo, the base with a mark in a glazed recess, the neck a replacement, 55cm.

Provenance: a Hong Kong private collection, purchased Lyon & Turnbull, 26th September 2007, lot 81.

Cf. A number of these 'Red Cliff' vases were produced in the Jingdezhen kilns around the 1690s and painted with images deriving from woodblock prints. See Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society, vol.49, Sir M Butler, Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of Qing, pp.34-35, nos.38-40 for similar 'Red Cliff' vases.