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Lot 45

A tall blue and white 'Red Cliff' cup
Yongzheng four-character mark, 18th century

Fine Chinese Art

8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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A tall blue and white 'Red Cliff' cup

Yongzheng four-character mark, 18th century
Delicately painted in underglaze blue with a scene of Su Dongpo and two friends in a covered raft steered by an attendant through a rocky riverscape, beneath a moon and three-starred constellation and a crane in flight, the reverse with an inscription. 8.9cm (3½in) high

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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.

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