A Chinese blue and white inscribed ‘Ode to the Red Cliff’ bo...

Hammer

£8,500

A Chinese blue and white inscribed ‘Ode to the Red Cliff’ bowl, Kangxi period, painted with Su Shi and his scholarly friends looking toward the Red Cliff across a channel of water, the moon above them, the reverse inscribed ‘Chibifu’ (for the poem Qian Chibifu by Su Shi (1037-1101) with a thirty one column version of the poem Ode to the Red Cliff, the interior painted with ‘fu’, birds, rabbits, cliffs, celestial star formations, an axe and other motifs, emblematic of good luck, longevity and safe travel, the base with six character mark ‘Qi yu bao ding zhi zhen’ (Precious as a treasured ding of rare jade), 15.7cm diameter, 7.5cm high

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There is a small 4mm x 2mm glaze chip to the rim, an over glazed splinter chip to the inside of the foot, another firing indentation to the inside of the foot, other glaze imperfections to the underside of the bowl next to the foot. There is some scratching to the glaze on the interior and to an imperfection on the glaze on the underside otherwise in good condition.