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76 Li Taibai, also known as Li Bai, is one of the best known poets from
A famille verte square conical bowl the Tang period, and is often depicted in a state of drunken inspiration.
Kangxi Together with Du Fu, he was part of a group known as the ‘Eight
Each side and the interior of the bowl well enamelled with the drunken Immortals of the Wine Cup’, who drank to an unusual degree, even for
poet Li Taibai sitting next to a wine pot in progressive stages of eccentric Chinese poets. Li Bai was the one who most tirelessly and
inebriation. enthusiastically celebrated wine in his verse, one of his most famous
9cm (3 1/2in) square poems being ‘Waking From Drunkenness on a Spring Day’.
£600 - 1,000
HK$7,500 - 13,000 CNY5,900 - 9,900
清康熙 五彩太白醉酒圖四方碗
Provenance 來源: D & M Freedman Ltd., London
Roy Davids Collection, no.80, acquired on 4 March 2010
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