拍品 59
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A Japanese Arita blue and white sake cup
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A Japanese Arita blue and white sake cup

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

细节
A Japanese Arita blue and white sake cup
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The slightly tapering cylindrical form decorated with two washed-blue panels enclosing a standing figure of a Dutchman, divided by a two-line inscription
5 cm. high
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拍品专文

The inscription is the first part of a Lûshi poem from 754 by the famous Chinese poet Li Bai (701-762) who wrote it when saying goodbye to a friend. Freely translated into English the poem reads: Green mountains laying around the suburb in the north, in the east white water surrounds the city, this is where our ways part, and you dragged ten thousand miles as a dodder