An unusual Chinese blue and white square stand, probably Republican, painted with four figures in a boat sailing down a river, the opposite bank with trees, rocks and a waterfall, beside a poem and three seals, the sides and feet moulded as sections of bamboo, blue four character Daoguang to reverse, 22 cm. square.
An approximate translation of the poem reads, `500 years ago when I came here alone, The water and sky seems the same and joining each other, Tonight wandering about on the other side of the East hill, Remind me the Autumn in 1922'