Page 54 - The Ian and Susan Wilson Collection Schilar's Objects, Christie's, March 2016

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‘Place it upright, pour wine!
Turn it over- like a peak! With the aid
of other mountains
Moistening this ‘dragon for wine’!
Wondrous fragrance infused in wine,
Rich brew entering one’s mouth,
Floatingly, gives of clouds of fragrance,
By the quart, and by the gallon!
Ziye (Qu Yingshao) wrote this after
getting drunk, and while trimming the
candle’.
仰之挹酒 覆之若峰
他山之助 潤此酒龍
奇香入酒 醇醪入口
蕩為香雲 亦石亦斗
子冶醉後剪燭作

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