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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE ‘ODE TO THE
RED CLIFF’ CUPS
YONGZHENG MARKS AND PERIOD
each with deep U-shaped body rising from a short straight
foot to an everted rim, painted on one side with the poet Su
Shi with two friends and an attendant in a # at-bottomed boat
# oating on calm waters towards a tall overhanging cli< -face,
the reverse inscribed with verses from the Chibi fu (‘Ode to the
Red Cli< ’), the base with a four-character mark (2)
Height 3⅝ in., 9.3 cm
$ 10,000-15,000
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૶འ͍ ڡڀԏኣց༷ྡ་˖΃ᙒόްɓ࿁
འ͍ϋႡ‘ಛ

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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘QILIN’ ROULEAU VASE
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the cylindrical body spiritedly painted in bright tones of cobalt
blue with two qilin, in mutual gaze, each standing on a rocky
promontory emerging from roiling, cresting waves, above an
open-beaked bird soaring low in search of prey, the neck with
a single raised ! llet and a series of crenellated, scroll and ruyi-
head borders
Height 18 in., 47.7 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Walter F. Price (b. 1858), San Francisco, acquired
from Vickery, Atkins and Torrey, San Francisco in the 1920s-30s.
$ 10,000-15,000
૶ੰဢ ڡڀ๡ऎᘅ᜝ྡಏ࿽ଧ
Ը๕
Walter F Price ͛1858 ϗᔛdᔚږʆd
ᒅ׵ Vickery Atkins and Torreydᔚږʆd
1920Ї1930ϋ˾

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