1962. Mao Era, People�s Republic of China. The tall rouleau vase painted on one side in polychrome overglaze enamels to depict two dogs, black and brown, beneath a pine tree in a landscape. En verso lithopane of Chairman Mao Zedong with a poem he wrote in the autumn of 1929 and published in 1962 titled �The Warlords Clash,� appearing to be written in his own calligraphic script style. Interior of the vase imprinted with a blue National Emblem of the People�s Republic of China. Red overglaze marks to base �Zhong Nanhai Huairen tang, zhenpin, Taoci Yanjiusuo, yi jiu liu er nian, jing zhi� or Treasure of the Huairen Hall of Zhongnanhai [palace adjacent the Forbidden City in Beijing to house the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party], respectfully made in 1962 by the Ceramics Research Institute [Jingdezhen]. The poem may be translated as: Sudden veer of wind and rain Showering misery through the land, The warlords are clashing anew Yet another Golden Millet Dream. Red banners leap over the Ting River Straight to Lungyen and Shanghang. We have reclaimed part of the golden bowl And land is being shared out with a will. From a Montreal collection via a European family who acquired the vase in the late 1970's/early 1980's. Approx. 14 1/2 by 6 in., 37 by 15.2 cm.

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