A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE `RED CLIFF` VASE SIX CHARACTER KANGXI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1662-1722 The square-section tapering body inscribed on two sides with the two `Odes to the Red Cliff` by the Song dynasty poet Su Dongpo (1037-96), the other two sides finely painted with scenes illustrating the poet making the trip to the famous site with his friends, the reduced neck with sprays of bamboo, 42cm. Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford. A number of `Red Cliff` vases were produced in the Jingdezhen kilns around the 1690s and painted with images deriving from woodblock prints. See Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol.49, Sir M Butler, Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of Qing, pp.34-35, nos.38-40 for similar `Red Cliff` vases.