Chinese Yongzheng blue and white porcelain wine pot. Decorated along one side with the poem "Return to the Red Cliff," a Ming poem about Su Shi's famous Ode to the Red Cliff (1082). The poem reads, "Five hundred years on, the journey continues/ Glittering water still meets the floating sky in the far horizon/ Loitering tonight under the moon of the Eastern Mountain/ The sentiment seemingly as if it was in the autumn of 1082." The other side depicts the scene described in the poem. Marked along the underside with a four character Yongzheng mark in underglaze blue. The lid is not original to the wine pot.Dimensions: Height: 5 1/4 in x width: 4 1/2 in x depth: 3 1/2 in.