Lot 496 清康熙 青花赤壁賦筆筒 | Santos Collection | A fine Chinese blue and white 'Ode to the Red Cliffs' brushpot, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period

清康熙 青花赤壁賦筆筒 | Santos Collection | A fine Chinese blue and white 'Ode to the Red Cliffs' brushpot, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period

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Estimate £8,000 - £12,000

14cm high

In overall good condition, some general firing imperfections, wear to the rim and minor frits to base, general wear to the surface and glaze consistent with age.

The finely potted bitong formed with slightly curved sides, the exterior painted in bold underglaze-blue depicting two large stylised shou characters, each character containing two large cartouches enclosing the calligraphic inscriptions of Su Dongpo's poem 'Ode to the Red Cliffs' and further adorned with seals, one of the seals reading 'Dragon West' and also signed 'Cloud Play' (Yun Wan), together with a cloth box
(Quantity:1)
Provenance:
John R. Berwald Oriental Ceramics & Works Art, London, 18 April 1995;
The Marsh Collection;
Bonhams, The Marsh Collection, Art for the Literati, London, 3 November 2022, lot 43;
Santos Collection
來源：
倫敦 John R Berwald東方陶瓷及工藝品，1995年4月18日；
倫敦邦瀚斯，2022年11月3日，43號拍品；
Marsh舊藏；
桑托斯收藏
Please note that this brushpot has been published and Illustrated in S. Marsh, Brushpots: A Collector's View, Hong Kong, 2020, pp.146-147
此筆筒著錄並刊載於《藏家眼中的筆筒》，作者S. Marsh，香港，2020年出版，見第146-147頁。
Notes:
During his first exile to Huangzhou, imposed for his opposition to reformist policies at court, the Song dynasty writer Su Dongpo (1037–1101) passed the site traditionally identified with the naval battle of the Red Cliffs (AD 208). On this occasion he composed his two celebrated Red Cliff poems, which simultaneously memorialize the valor of the historical protagonists and articulate his own meditations on nostalgia, transience, and the inexorable passage of history. These poems subsequently assumed a canonical status within the Chinese literary tradition and have remained an enduring point of reference for poets and artists alike. See R. Egan, Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi, Cambridge, MA, 1994, pp. 221–228. The present lot incorporates extracts from Su’s poems, the inscription reading as follows:
五百年前續此遊，水光依舊接天浮，徘徊今夜東山月，恍惚當年王戌秋。
雲玩
'Continuing the journey from five hundred years ago, the scenery of old with water stretching to the horizon, tonight the moon lingers by the Eastern Mountain, as if it were the same autumn moon that shone on the battle.
Yun Wan.'
有客得魚臨赤壁，無人載酒出黃州，吟成一浦千山寂，
孤鶴橫江涼小舟。
'A visitor arrives at the Red Cliff with freshly caught fish, yet no one brought wine from Huangzhou, our poetry contrasts the silence that fills the riverbank and the thousand mountains a lonely crane crosses the river and passes over our boat.'
北宋文壇巨擘蘇軾（1037–1101），因反對朝廷變法而遭貶黃州。謫居期間，蘇氏曾遊歷赤壁古戰場遺址（公元208年），觸景生情，遂成流芳百世之《赤壁賦》（前後二賦）。其文不僅懷古弔英，更將文人對歷史滄桑、人生短暫及宇宙永恆之哲思融為一體。此作遂成中國文學藝術之典範，歷代詩人畫家引以為鑒。相關研究可參閱 R. Egan 著：《蘇軾之文字、影像與事蹟》（Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi，哈佛大學出版社，1994年，第221–228頁）。
本拍品題錄蘇軾詩意，全文如下：
「五百年前續此遊，水光依舊接天浮，徘徊今夜東山月，恍惚當年王戌秋。」 —— 雲玩
「有客得魚臨赤壁，無人載酒出黃州，吟成一浦千山寂，孤鶴橫江涼小舟。」
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【名称】
清康熙 青花赤壁賦筆筒 | Santos Collection
【描述】
此笔筒器型规整，略呈弧形，外壁以浓重的青花描绘两个大型寿字纹，每个寿字内包含两个大开光，内书苏东坡《赤壁赋》的书法题词，并饰有印章，其中一个印章上刻有“龙西”字样，并署名“云玩”，附布盒
(数量：1)
【品相】
整体状况良好，有一些烧制时的瑕疵，口沿磨损，底部有轻微磕碰，表面和釉面有符合年代的磨损。