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A BAMBOO ‘ODE TO THE RED Another closely related ‘Ode to the Red Cliff’ 清十八世紀初 竹雕赤璧圖筆筒
CLIFF’ BRUSHPOT bamboo brushpot in the Shanghai Museum
is illustrated in Literati Spirit. Art of Chinese 來源：
QING DYNASTY, EARLY 18TH Bamboo Carving, Shanghai, 2001, p. 43, pl. 香港佳士得1990年10月10日，編號1944
CENTURY 11. The scene depicts the celebrated scholar-
official Su Shi (1032-1101), making an excursion
of cylindrical form resting on three short feet, the
to the Red Cliff. Compare a bamboo brushpot
exterior well carved in varying levels of relief with
illustrating the same subject matter signed Deng
a continuous figural landscape depicting Su Shi’s
Wei, sold at Christie’s New York, 19th September
first visit to the Red Cliff with his companions,
2007, lot 33; another, from the Lutz collection,
the figures portrayed on a raft, two at the back
sold in our New York rooms, 18th March 2008,
steering the vessel towards the Red Cliff, three
lot 49; and another sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
seated around a table in the centre of the deck,
6th April 2016, lot 3030.
and another two attendants at the bow, the
riverscape accentuated with a mountainous
background and overhanging pine trees issuing
from the cliffs, the patina of a slightly reddish-
brown colour
15.9 cm, 6¼ in.
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 10th October 1990, lot
1944.
HK$ 200,000-300,000
US$ 25,600-38,400

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