A RARE PAINTED CIZHOU 'DOUBLE FISH' PILLOW

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A RARE PAINTED CIZHOU 'DOUBLE FISH' PILLOW
SONG/JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

Of hexagonal section, covered overall with a creamy white glaze and boldly painted on top in brown with two carp swimming amidst aquatic plants below two butterflies hovering above, all within a brown double-line border along the edge (glaze flakes to rims, fine hairlines to body)
12 in. (30.5 cm.) long

Provenance

The T.Y. Chao Family Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 221.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1995, lot 678.

Cf. a leaf-shaped Cizhou pillow painted with two fish amidst waterweed in the Yamato Bunkakan, illustrated in So Gen no Bijutsu, pl. 24; and again in the Venice exhibition Mostra d'arte Cinese, illustrated in the catalogue, 1954, no. 950.

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