A BLUE AND WHITE BRUSH POT

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A BLUE AND WHITE BRUSH POT
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Well painted on one side with a scholar seated in a boat holding a wine cup as three other scholars stand on a rocky promontory, and on the reverse with the title and text of the Hou Chi Bi Fu (Second Red Cliff Ode), with the four-character mark Wen zhang shan dou (scholarship as high as the mountains and the Great Bear) in a recessed medallion in the center of the base
7 3/8 in. (18.9 cm.) diam.

Exhibited

Oriental Works of Art, Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., London, 7 - 18 June 2004, no. 1.

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Lot Essay

The poem, Hou Chi Bi Fu, was composed by the Northern Song dynasty statesman, calligrapher and poet Su Shi, also known as Su Dongpo (1037-1101). The ode describes a boating trip by night with a friend on the Yangzi River in Hubei where Su Dongpo was living in internal political exile at the time.

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