BLUE AND WHITE INSCRIBED SQUARE-SECTION 'ODE TO THE RED CLIFF' VASE 青花題字赤壁故事圖方瓶 sturdily potted with tapering square sides, one side painted with the poet and statesman Su Shi (1037–1101) and two other scholars standing by a riverbank with a figure paddling a sampan boat in the river, the other side with a sampan full of scholars before a cliff, alternating with the Former and Later Odes to the Red Cliff (40.7cm high) Qty: (1) Note: Compare to a similar blue and white square-form vase, with similar composition of the design and painting, Kangxi mark and period, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, accession no. 2015.784.1