Footnotes

• 十八世紀 青花人物故事詩文杯 青花「雍正年製」楷書款
  
  The inscription reads:
  
  五百年前續此遊，
  水光依舊接天浮，
  徘徊今夜東山月，
  仿佛當年壬戌秋，
  有客得魚臨赤壁，
  無人载酒出黄州，
  吟成一浦千山寂，
  孤鶴横江掠小舟.
  
  This can be translated as:
  
  Five hundred years ago they continued their outing here,
  The water's reflection according to the ancients joined with the floating sky;
  Tonight the moon waivers behind eastern mountain,
  Like that autumn of the renxu year [1082];
  A traveller got a fish facing Red Cliff,
  No one took wine to Huangzhou;
  Our chanting becomes quiet among the tributaries and thousand peaks,
  A lone crane traverses the river skimming over the small boat.
  
  This cup commemorates the work of the famous poet Su Shi (1037-1101), also known as Su Dongpo, and his most celebrated poem Ode to the Red Cliff. Imitating a painting by the artist Li Song (1190–1225), the image of Su Dongpo travelling in a boat became a very popular and immediately recognisable motif in Chinese art.