Red Cliff

Bottle: possibly Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, 1890-1910
Decoration: Zhou Honglai, 1890-1910
Height: 6.3 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.69/1.25 cm
Stopper: coral; rhinoceros-horn collar

Provenance:
Hugh M. Moss, Ltd, Hong Kong (1992)
Bloch Collection
Bonham’s, Hong Kong, 23 November 2010, lot 64
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd.

Published:
Kleiner, Yang and Shangraw 1994, no. 137
Moss, Graham, and Tsang 2002, no. 1055
JICSBS, Autumn 2004, p. 28, fig. 107.
JICSBS, Winter  2004, p. 21, fig. 8

 

Translucent white glass; with a flat lip and slightly recessed, convex foot surrounded by a protruding rounded foot rim; engraved on one main side with three scholars strolling along a mountain path beside which grow trees, bamboo, and other foliage, with the other side engraved with most of the text of Su Shi’s Second Ode to the Red Cliff, which is completed on the side with the three scholars and followed by Yanbin zuo 鴈賓作, and one seal of the artist in positive seal script, Zhou 周

Alexander Whittaker