A RARE RETICULATED INLAID CELADON PILLOW

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A RARE RETICULATED INLAID CELADON PILLOW
KORYO DYNASTY (12TH CENTURY)

The minature openwork pillow with the top and under surfaces decorated in inlaid black and white slip with a central roundel containing two flying cranes within a pair of parallel lines within a pierced black outlined rectangle, the borders inlaid with a chain diaper in white slip, beneath a rich, crackled and bubble-suffused celadon glaze - 3 5/8 x 5in. (9 x 12.5cm.), kiln defects and restorations

Lot Essay

For similar examples of these rare inlaid pillows see Gompertz,Korean celadon, pl. 72a; Koyama Fujio, etal "Korea, pre-Koryo and Koryo periods" Sekai toji zenshu Vol. 13, (Tokyo 1961) pl. 91; Rhee, "Koryo ceramics" Masterpieces of Korean Art Vol 2, (Tokyo 1978), pls. 213, 214.