Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Chinese square-section vase, Kangxi (1662-1722), depicting scenes from the 'Ode to the Red Cliff' and decorated with scholars by a river bank, figures paddling sampan boats and a lady on horseback below pine and willow trees and a protruding cliff face, the shoulders with sprays of flowers, the neck decorated with bamboo, the base with a six-character Chenghua reign-mark, height: 19 5/8in., 49.8cm; condition: the top of the rim (approx. 2.5cm) rebuilt. Provenance: By repute from the collection of Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart (1858-1937); a colonial official and art collector, Stewart was the Commissioner of Weihaiwei (1902-1927) and a renowned sinologist who made pioneering translations. The 'Ode to the Red Cliff' was a Northern-Song dynasty prose poem written by Su Shi (1037-1101) about the poet and his friends going on an excursion, drifting beneath the Red Cliffs down the Yangzi River near Su Shi's exile home of Hangzhou in the summer of 1082. SOLD
Guest & Gray 58 Davies StreetLondonW1K 5LP
