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Lot Essay
This pillow bears the stamp of the Zhang Family, a family or workshop famous for its skilled decorators that worked in an area formerly called Xiangxian, to the west of Anyang in Henan province.
Compare the similary decorated Zhang family pillow in the British Museum, London, illustrated by Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1981, no. 118. See, also, another pillow of this type, from the Falk Collection, illustrated by Y. Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1981, p. 143, pl. 59, and later sold in these rooms, 20 September 2001, lot 69.
Compare the similary decorated Zhang family pillow in the British Museum, London, illustrated by Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1981, no. 118. See, also, another pillow of this type, from the Falk Collection, illustrated by Y. Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1981, p. 143, pl. 59, and later sold in these rooms, 20 September 2001, lot 69.