Title

Carved soapstone plaque with scene of Su Shi at the Red Cliffs, China, mid-18th century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Carved soapstone plaque with scene of Su Shi at the Red Cliffs, China, mid-18th century. Qing dynasty rectangular soapstone plaque of yellowish-green colour with extensive red and grey suffusions. The plaque is carved on this side with a sampan with four occupants near pine-clad cliffs with a crane and clouds above; the four occupants can be identified as the well-known Song poet Su DongPo (1036-1101) otherwise known as Su Shi, who wrote 'The Ode to the red cliffs', a scene from which is depicted here, the poet Huang Tingjian, the monk Foyin and a servant boating under the Red Cliffs. The back is carved with a landscape scene of hills, trees, pavilions and a bridge.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1725

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B72_265

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,0Mb (617,0Kb) / 9,5in x 7,4in / 2835 x 2217 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation landscape boat boats yellow arts country China Chinese color colour location century literature artefact plaque dynasty artifact water transport poet Qin Dynasty 18th century Eighteenth Century Museum of East Asian Art 11th century soapstone Foyin Huang Tingjian Su Shi object Eleventh Century Unknown stone Ch'in dynasty Kin dynasty Su Su DongPo Shi Tingjian Huang HuangTienChien stone object