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A RARE AND LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN INSCRIBED AND DATED YENYEN VASE

KANGXI, WITH AN INSCRIPTION DATED TO THE GUISI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1713

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A RARE AND LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN INSCRIBED AND DATED YENYEN VASE
KANGXI, WITH AN INSCRIPTION DATED TO THE GUISI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1713
Painted on one side of the body with a large oblong panel depicting a gathering on a boat in a rocky riverscape below a crane, the other side with a lengthy inscription signed 'Li Wenhuan', the neck similarly decorated with figures in landscape, with later lamp fittings
29½ in. (76 cm.) high

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Please note that the illustrations for lots 11 and 12 are in the wrong order and should be swapped, i.e. lot 12 is illustrated on the opposite page beneath the text for lot 11 and vice versa.

Lot Essay

The text on this vase is the 'Later Ode on the Red Cliff' composed in 1082 by Su Shi (1036-1101). There is an added poem at the end of the text composed by the inscriber, Li Wenhuan, with a dedication to a certain Mr. Ziduan by the younger contemporary. A beaker vase also inscribed with the 'Later Ode on the Red Cliff' in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 36- Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red, The Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2000, no. 32. A more common example is of tapering square shape, and inscribed on two sides with both the 'Former' and the 'Later Ode on the Red Cliff', such as the one in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, no. 31, p. 42.

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