A blue and white 'Ode to the Red Cliff' dish, Transitional period - Photo Sotheby's
with gentle shallow sides, the interior painted with a scene from 'Ode to the Red Cliff', with Su Dongpo and two friends in a raft drinking wine, steered by an attendant through a mountainous riverscape, beneath a crane in flight and an inscription describing the scene; Diameter 10 1/8 in., 25.6 cm - Estimation: 6,000 - 8,000 USD
PROVENANCE: Acquired by Mr. Henry S. Palmer in Hong Kong in the 1850s and thence by descent.
Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 19 mars 2013 - www.sothebys.com