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Vase with landscape and poem by Zhu Xi
This vase was made in the seventeenth century, but it is inscribed with a poem written by the influential neo-Confucian thinker Zhu Xi (1130–1200) of the Southern Song dynasty. It reads:
On a pleasant day, I seek fragrance on the banks of the Si River;
The boundless sunlit landscape appears suddenly new.
Easily recognize the face of the eastern wind,
As myriad purples, thousands of reds—all are [the appearances of] spring.
—Translation after Yang Zhiyi
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