A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE INSCRIBED 'ODE TO THE RED

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE INSCRIBED 'ODE TO THE RED CLIFF' BOWL.

Ming Dynasty.

Painted to the exterior with a fragment of the famous poem Chibi Fu by Su Shi (1037 – 1101) and a panel with the poet Su Shi, his two friends and an attendant in a pleasure boat, the interior with a four character Yongle mark within a band of stylised spiders, another band to the gilded rim, 8.5cm H, 16.5cm diameter.

明 青花《赤壁賦》文盌，青花「永乐年製」款

For a very similar 'Red Cliff' bowl with a Yongle mark see Stephen Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period (1620-1683), pp.36-37, pl.1a., where Little names this type of bowl as one of the earliest examples types of Transitional ceramics.

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